Tan Sri Dr Anthony Francis Fernandes Background and Qualification Tan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes, the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd, which introduced the first budget no-frills airline in Malaysia, AirAsia with the tagline of "Now everyone can fly". He was born in 30 April 1964 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to a Goan (originally from Goa) father Dr. Stephen Edward Fernandes and a Kristang (known as "Portuguese-Eurasians") mother Ena Dorothy Fernandez. Dr Tony Fernandes was educated at The Alice
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AirAsia : Indeed the Sky's the Limit! ASIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT CASES, 7(1), 2010: 7–31 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LOS ANGELES/LONDON/NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON DC DOI: 10.1177/097282011000700103 Lead Article AIRASIA: INDEED THE SKY’S THE LIMIT! Rizal Ahmad This article details the development of AirAsia Malaysia from 2005 to 2008 and builds on a prior case, ‘AirAsia: The Sky’s the Limit’. Within only four years, AirAsia managed to expand its operations into another ten countries. In addition
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are operating at KLIA2 terminal and start with only domestic routes but then expand the routes to international routes to country such as India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Singapore and many other country. The reason for the Malindo Air is build due to AirAsia entry to the Indonesia market has affected the market share owned by the local Indonesia airlines such as Lion Air hence this has push them also to enter the Malaysia market by performed the joint venture with NADI and provide the low cost airlines
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assumed its $11 million in debt. He relaunched AirAsia Berhad as Asia’s first low-fare airline and the region’s first carrier to allow customers to buy tickets online and through mobile phones. The no-frills outfit got rid of complimentary food and drinks, frequent-flier programs, airport lounges, even cleaning crews; flight attendants now clean the cabins after flights. Ads are sold on the airplanes’ overhead bins and tray tables. All this has helped AirAsia become one of the world’s lowest-cost carriers
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The Development and History of AIRASIA AIRASIA is one among the top International brand in the low cost Airline Industry. Airasia brand came into existence in 1993, it was a joint public-private sector enterprise, however in 2001 current CEO Mr. Tony Fernandes purchased it and It was under him the Airasia brand got global recognition and unimaginable growth which started right from 2002 and continues till date, AirAsia started moving up the ladder under Tony's leadership from 2002 onwards
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Introduction Airasia is an airline started by the Malaysia government conglomerate, DRB-Hicom in 1993 and it’s first operation was carried out on 18 November 1996. The current Airasia country CEO of Malaysia is Aireen Omar. Since 2001, Airasia had been growing rapidly and received recognition award for largest low fare airlines in the Asia. It now served over 60 domestic and international countries with a fleet of 72 aircrafts all airbus A320-200 with 108 routes network. Airasia is well known for
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CONTENTS PAGE 1 INTRODUCTION 2-6 1.2 INTERPERSONAL ROLE 1.2.1 Figurehead 1.2.2 Leader 1.2.3 Liaison 1.3 INFORMATIONAL ROLE 1.3.1 Monitoring 1.3.2 Disseminator 1.3.3 Spokesperson 1.4 DECISIONAL ROLE 1.4.1 Entrepreneur 1.4.2 The Disturbance Handler 1.4.3 Resources Allocator Roles 1.4.4 Negotiator Role 2.0 FIRST ARTICLE 7-9 2.1 Role as a Figurehead 2.2 Role as a Spokesperson 2.3 Role as an Entrepreneur 2.4 Role as a Negotiator
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Table of content 1.0 Introduction……………………………………………………………………..2 2.0 Favorite brand is Air Asia……………………………………………………….3 3.1 Favorite brand and the reasons brand makes great………………………4 3.0 Bad brand is Rayani Air…………………………………………………………6 4.2 The reason why the brand are bad……………………………………….7 4.0 The major competitor of the favorite brand…………………………………..8 4.1 Malaysia Airlines (MAS) the major competitor of Air Asia………….....9 4.2 Competing brands in
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just providing air travel, airlines will leverage more on mobile technology and social networks to foster deeper and more responsive interaction with customers and build brand loyalty Comment on the business-level strategy adopted by AirAsia. How has AirAsia achieved cost leadership or differentiation? The business level strategy adopted by
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low cost carrier - AirAsia Berhad on how they started this business and bring a huge change in the low cost carrier history globally. This report will discuss on how AirAsia business structure is, what is their culture and the expectation to maintain as well as get into the right track of tough time in airline services. The concept of low cost air travel was then new in Malaysia and how does they turned a loss to profit just in seven years? 2.0 Organization Overview AirAsia is the world most leading
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