Tiger Airways, a Singapore-based budget carrier part-owned by Singapore Airlines Ltd., is planning to launch flights to Sri Lanka and five destinations in southern India, the Business Times reported.

Quoting Tiger Airway's Chief Executive Tony Davis, the paper said the budget carrier already has rights to operate flights between Singapore and Kolkata, but has yet to start the service. The carrier has also clinched Singapore air traffic rights to operate flights to Trivandrum, Goa, Kochi and Kozhikode in southern India, and Colombo in Sri Lanka, the report added.

- Dow Jones