low-cost airline around the Asia, which ownsby a parent company name “Tune Group”. This company was actually founded by “DRB-Hicom”, which is a company own by Malaysia’s government back in 20th December 1993 and started their operations on 18th November 1996. Unfortunately, the company’s performance not doing very well for few years until it was 2nd December 2001, the day that this airline taken over by Tony Fernandes, the CEO of Air Asia Group. Since then, Tony Fernandes performance was astonishing
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Introduction – Air Asia Berhad Pengenalan - Air Asia Berhad Air Asia is a Malaysia Low Cost Carrier Airline Company which was founded in 2001 by Tony Fernandes. Air Asia adalah Kos Carrier Rendah Malaysia Airline Syarikat yang diasaskan pada tahun 2001 oleh Tony Fernandes. It was the first successful and is one of the largest low cost airlines in Southeast Asia. Ia adalah yang pertama berjaya dan merupakan salah satu daripada kos terbesar syarikat penerbangan rendah di Asia Tenggara. Also, it
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Background Anthony Francis Fernandes was born on the April 30th 1964 to a Goan father and a Kristang mother and raised in Kuala Lumpur. He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1987. He worked very briefly with Virgin Atlantic as an auditor, subsequently becoming the financial controller for Richard Branson's Virgin Records in London until 1989. Tony became the youngest managing director of Warner Music (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and in 1992, became the Southeast Asian regional vice-president
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Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes CBE (born 30 April 1964; also known as Tony Fernandes) is a Malaysianentrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". He has since founded the Tune Group of companies. He rose to prominence by turning AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. Fernandes was also instrumental
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which contributes a lot to the economic growth. In Malaysia, one of the successful entrepreneurs is the founder of the Tune Group of Companies named Tony Fernandes, who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". This paper will discuss the key entrepreneur attributes of Tony Fernandes which bring him to the success in his business and the background information of the companies. Table Of Contents 1. Background 2 2.
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summary Air Asia Airline is one of the companies that once facing a critical financial crisis situation within the organisation. However Air Asia has successfully overcome this problem and expand this nearly bankrupt organisation to become million valued company within a short period of time. Air Asia only used 4 years times to change from a heavily debt organisation and become a high profit company that earn a net profit of RM112 million during 2004 (Air Asia 2005). This has illustrate that Air Asia
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THE BEGINNING The story of AirAsia began after Tony Fernandes observed and was impressed with the way that easyJet was run. EasyJet is a London-based low cost airline and he, decided to further explore the mechanics and intricacies of the airline operations first hand. It has been his childhood dream to run an airline someday. So, after spending two days at easyJet headquarters in Luton airport, talking to staff and passengers and learning first hand how the airline operates, he had a vision
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Best Answer: Dato' Anthony Francis Fernandes (born 1964; also known as Tony Fernandes) is a Malaysian entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills 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
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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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