AirAsia – from obscurity to international prominence WRITTEN BY RACHNA KUMARI‚ ERN LI KOH‚ ONAISEE SYED‚ & EDITED BY SEOW KIAN TAN Background In December 2001‚ 5 years after its founder DRB-Hicom failed to establish profitability as a full-service regional airline‚ AirAsia was acquired by an eager maverick Tony Fernandes who had just left his executive position in Warner Music. This proved to be the turning point for the Malaysian airline industry. With the help of Conor McCarthy‚ the
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INTRODUCTION Company Background . AirAsia Berhad was established in 1993 and started operations on 18 November 1996. On December 2‚ 2001‚ the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit. Fernandes proceeded to engineer a remarkable turnaround‚ turning a profit in 2002 and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur International Airport at breakneck speed‚ undercutting former monopoly operator
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competitive business. After a few days of discussion‚ four of us decided to choose company in airline service sector. The reason we are choosing this sector is because we found out its interesting and attractive part. As a result‚ we had finally choose the AirAsia Sdn Bhd airline. The reason why we choose this company is due to its luxury and satisfied service that we had experienced and this had inspire us want to know more about this company. In general‚ this assignment had covers the company background
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BACKGROUND AirAsia is Malaysia’s second national airline was incorporated in 1993 as a full-service regional airline under DRB-Hicom. They started their operations on 1996. After starting their operations for several years‚ AirAsia failed to attract enough passengers to establish its own niche market due to the demise of Tan Sri Yahaya Ahmad and financial crisis. Hence‚ AirAsia was heavily indebted. In 2001‚ Tony Fernandes’s company‚Tune Air Sdn Bhd bought this airline from DRB-Hicom with estimation
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__________________ Date Lecturer’s Name DIPLOMA : DIA / DIBA / DIM(N) / DHRM / DIHM / DIGD / DIMD AirAsia Berhad is Malaysia and Asia’s first low cost carrier has made its name synonymous with low fare air travel in the region. Now a household name throughout Asia‚ Airasia offers lower fares by eliminating most traditional passenger services in order to make air travel affordable and accessible for everyone. Airasia provides a totally different type of service in line with the nation’s aspirations to benefit
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Background information of AirAsia History The airline was established in 1993 and started operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom. On December 2‚ 2001‚ the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit. Fernandes proceeded to engineer a remarkable turnaround‚ turning a profit in 2002 and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur
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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
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AirAsia Low Fare A Written Analysis of the Case Holy Cross College of Sasa‚ Inc KM. 9 Sasa‚ 8000 Davao City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject Mktg 1: Principles of Marketing Mark Angelo B. Bugtac I – Executive Summary December 2000‚ AirAsia was an insolent subsidiary of deeply indebted Malaysian Conglomerate. Airline had only two planes. Tony Fernandes was a former managing director of Warner Musics Malaysian Operator. He assembled a group of small investors
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to be an iterative one and one that remains alive and is continuously updated and adjusted to suit the changing competitive and economic landscape. Few companies in the world have managed to survive‚ let alone prosper‚ over long periods of time. AirAsia approaches to prevent this occurring and to generate continued growth is to frequently re-assess its strategy so that they build strong businesses in the attractive industries of the future Company overview - Air Asia Berhad AirAsia’s leading airline
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Introduction AirAsia is the airline industry started based on the low cost carrier (LCC) concept in Malaysia. The low cost concept is introduced in the year of 2001 with the belief that “Now Everyone Can Fly” by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was first established in 1993 and began its operation on 18 November 1996. In the year 2001‚ Anthony Fernandes (or known as Tony Fernandes) bought the airline which is suffering a loss. It was re-established as the low cost carrier after the bought over. AirAsia’s
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