THE RISE OF TONY FERNANDES AND AIRASIA IN MALAYSIA1 SHAHRIL EASHAK ISMAIL Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Caulfield East Vic 3145, Australia Email: seism1@student.monash.edu 1 This paper was presented to the 18 Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association th of Australia in Adelaide, 5-8 July 2010. It has been peer reviewed via a double referee process and appears on the Conference Proceedings Website
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STRATEGY, STRUCTURE AND CULTURE 8 8. CHALLENGES OF AIRASIA 9 9. CONCLUSION 9 10. REFERENCES 10 11. APPENDIX 10 1. Organizational Structure 10 2. Survey 10 1. INTRODUCTION Our group would like to study about successful organization to enhance our learning experience. We have discussed few topics and finally AirAsia was selected for our group project because AirAsia is one of the role model for Low Cost Carrier industries
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1. Briefly describe the trends in the global airline industry. a) Increasing travel demand Two of the top six U.S. airlines saw their best traffic results in 18 months this past November. While Southwest recorded a 12 percent increase, Continental registered a 2.8 percent increase, respectively, in miles flown per passenger. These figures represent absolute increases in ‘warm bodies’ flown – a more reliable metric than passenger load factor. Clearly, the slump in air travel is ending. IATA
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services 3.5. AirAsia X’s strategic decisions in offering long-haul services 3. Recommendation for future growth of AirAsia 4. Conclusion References 1. Introduction 1.1. Company background In the year 1993, AirAsia was founded by DRB-Hicom which is a government owned conglomerate. The first operation of the company was started on 18 November 1996. Since the year 2001, AirAsia has been expanding its business rapidly and until the present AirAsia group has been recognized
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airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". He rose to prominence by turning AirAsia, a fledging government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful public-listed company. Fernandes was also instrumental in lobbying the then-Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in mid-2003, to propose the idea of open skies agreements with neighbouring Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore. As a result, these nations have granted landing rights to AirAsia and other
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3.0 Service Air Asia, The world's best low-cost airline, it belong to a type of budget airline company, budget airline company means airline has cancel some of the traditional airline passenger services, mainly engaged in high traffic of short-haul routes, mostly in the cheapest airports, and they do not provide free meals and other additional services in order to reduce the number of unnecessary expenses thus decrease the operating costs, which can provide quantities of cheap airline fares. Especially
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Swinburne University of Technology Faculty of Business and Law International Business Strategy Analysis Group Assignment (35%) INB70012 Global Business Strategy Semester 1, 2015 Strategy Analysis of AirAsia Convenor : Dr Aron Perenyi & Lecturer Students : Natalia Knets Emma Dalton Gautham Raju Markus Arian Shakoor (1704583) * Executive Summary * Content page Executive Summary II Content III Figures IV 1 Introduction 1
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typically runs from 20% to 40%, depending on the price of oil in any given time period (please refer to Appendix A). The next biggest cost associated with running an airline would customer service and operations. The case study does indicate that AirAsia has entered into an alliance with another low cost carrier Jetstar from
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Introduction of Air Asia AirAsia is Asia’s largest no-frill and hassle-free airline which based on the low cost carrier (LCC) concept in Malaysia. Dato’ Sri Dr. Tony Fernandes introduced this low cost concept with his believe of “Now Everyone Can Fly”. In year of 1993, AirAsia was established and started its operations on 18 November 1996. Mr. Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd purchased this heavily in debt airline which was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom
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