Australia's Federal Court has set 22 July for a directions hearing into an application by the country's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to extend a grounding on Tiger Airways Australia.

CASA filed the application with the court on 7 July, seeking to ground the airline until 1 August. It first grounded the carrier for a week from 2 July due to safety concerns.

The grounding of Tiger's flights in Australia continues in the meantime before the hearing.

Tiger has said it is optimistic that it will resume services.

Source: Air Transport Intelligence news