analysis of AirAsia This report conducts an analysis of AirAsia, the world’s Lowest Cost Airline. AirAsia is a Malaysian low cost airline. AirAsia was found in 1993 and it started its operations from 18 Nov 1996. It was established initially by DRB-Hicom, a government owned- conglomerate. On 2 December 2001, the heavily- indebted airline was purchased Tony Fernandes former Time Warner Executive. Tony was inspired by the Low-Cost Carrier business model of Southwest Airlines and proposed to start a
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1.0 Introduction 1.1What is Supply Chain? The concept of the supply chain is evolved from the extended production concept. In the modern education of supply chain management is definition as Supply chain is built around the core business, through the business flow, information flow, logistics, capital flow controls, starting from the procurement of raw materials, intermediate products and final products madeof, and finally by the sales network to deliver products to consumers in the hands
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of the Malaysian government-owned conglomerate, DRB-Hicom, was quickly losing money. Fernandes mortgaged his home and used his personal savings to acquire the company, comprising two ageing Boeing 737-300 jets (9M-AAA and 9M-AAB) and US$11 million (RM40 million) worth of debts, for one ringgit (about 26 US cents), and transformed it into an industry player. One year after his takeover, AirAsia had broken even and cleared all its debts DRB-HICOM assembles cars in Malaysia for Honda, Isuzu, Suzuki
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ERICA DIANA JEREMIAH (01130102), STRATEGY MANAGEMENT MGT 6303, ASSIGNMENT 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Aviation industry is a highly competitive market, airlines needs to develop or possess good resources and capabilities to set a threshold among the industry. The airline that sets a new wave will gain the limitless opportunity as the game setter and industry’s leader. AirAsia is a Low Cost Carrier that has won many awards and global reputation. They had learned the importance to innovate good employee
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BA 423 Production and Operation Management Assignment Question: Critical Decision on AIRASIA Student name : Nithiasanthi a/p Peralakan Segi id : SCKL- 00039055 UIU id : 300411603 Lecturer : Ms Azreen Date of submission : 4th April 2016 Table of Content 1.0 Introduction 2.1 AirAsia 2.2.1 Background 2.2.2 Operations 2.2.3 Destinations 2.0 Ten Critical Decisions in Operation Management related to AirAsia 3.2 Service and Product
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Malaysia is second national airline. It was the first successful low cost, ticket-less airline in the Southeast Asian region. On 8 December 2001, Tune Air Sdn Bhd officially acquired 99.25 per cent equity (51.68 million shares) in AirAsia from DRB-Hicom, one of Malaysia’s giant conglomerates. Tune Air Sdn Bhd is the holding company, while AirAsia remains as the operating company. 1 AirAsia currently operates over 100 point-to-point domestic and international flights from its hubs in Kuala Lumpur International
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Malaysia is second national airline. It was the first successful low cost, ticket-less airline in the Southeast Asian region. On 8 December 2001, Tune Air Sdn Bhd officially acquired 99.25 per cent equity (51.68 million shares) in AirAsia from DRB-Hicom, one of Malaysia’s giant conglomerates. Tune Air Sdn Bhd is the holding company, while AirAsia remains as the operating company. 1 AirAsia currently operates over 100 point-to-point domestic and international flights from its hubs in Kuala Lumpur International
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Our Vision To create a strong international brand name in the construction and its allied Industry Our Mission Statement To perform for our customers the highest level of quality construction services at fair and market competitive prices. To maintain the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, honesty and fairness in our relationships with our suppliers, subcontractors, professional associates and customers. To ensure the longevity of our company achieved by customer satisfaction in all
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Discussion on the 5 promotional mix used by Honda The promotional mix used by Honda is divided into two categories which are traditional promotion medium and non-traditional medium. We have chosen the 5 latest promotional mix to be discussed including advertising, sales promotions (traditional promotion medium) and social media, sponsorship marketing as well as guerrilla marketing (non-traditional medium). Advertising is the most common tool used by company to promote their product. Advertising
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Financial Performance Analysis 9 6.2 SWOT Analysis 11 7 Strategy Recommendations 14 References 15 * Figures page Figure 1: Structure of AirAsia 8 Introduction AirAsia is a Malaysian low-cost carrier (LCC) and has been established in 1994 by DRB-Hicom. In 2001 Tony Fernandes took over the company and remains the CEO of the AirAsia Group. Fernandes turned the company from a small airline with two aircrafts operating to one destination with 250 staff (AirAsia 2015a) into the number one LCC operating
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