Air Asia Background AirAsia is one of the award winning and largest low fare airlines in the Asia expanding rapidly since 2001. With a fleet of 72 aircrafts‚ AirAsia flies to over 61 domestic and international destinations with 108 routes‚ and operates over 400 flights daily from hubs located in Malaysia‚ Thailand‚ and Indonesia. Today‚ AirAsia has flown over 55 million guests across the region and continues to create more extensive route network through its associate companies. AirAsia believes
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AIR ASIA – FLYING LOW COST WITH HIGH HOPES 1. Synopsis Air Asia was taken over by Tony Fernandes when the global economic crisis happened in 2001. It was restructured into the first no-frills and low cost carrier (LCC) in Asia. It is now the award winning with the largest operation low fare in Asia. The approach is to be easy to book‚ pay and fly and most of the seats are sold through online‚ this is in line with its motto ‘Now Everyone Can Fly’. Not only in Malaysia‚ Air Asia expanding the business
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Abi Sanni Aly Remtulla Kelsey Gamble Kendra Jocksch Nancy Moke Company background Tony Fernandes‚ as the Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia‚ decided to pursue his dream to start an airline with the following vision: “To be an airline that flies long-hauls with low fares with a corporate culture that is flexible and functional”. In January of 2002‚ Tony re-launched AirAsia (previously a struggling government-owned airline) with only 3 planes and started serving the
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1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate‚ DRB-Hicom. On 2 December 2001 the heavily-indebted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit (about USD 0.26 at the time) with USD 11 million (MYR 40 million) worth of debts. Fernandes turned the company around‚ producing a profit in 2002 and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur‚ undercutting former monopoly operator Malaysia Airlines with
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| MAY SEMESTER 2013ASSIGNMENT | BMSB5103 – SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT | | Prabageran Thiagarayah | CGS0045480223rd July 2013 | QUESTIONS: One business expert acknowledges that “Different stages of a small business cycle of development may not necessarily require the identical sources of financing. As such different sources of financing are observed right from the initial business idea creation‚ to start up‚ expansion and to the maturity and sustainable stages”. 1. Critically discuss
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Common Myths About Entrepreneurs Part 1 First lecture for BBDM3093 this afternoon. Pretty hot day. MU lost. Not enough sleep. Blur blur went for lecture. But once inside lecture hall‚ could feel the adrenalin rushing to the brain. Gave briefing with regard to coursework for this semester. That took almost an hour‚ and then we had a short break. So in truth there was only less than an hour for lecture. Wouldn’t be able to finish what was planned‚ so quickly rushed through the definitions and focused
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Tony Fernandes‚ as the Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia‚ decided to pursue his dream to start an airline with the following vision: “To be an airline that flies long-hauls with low fares with a corporate culture that is flexible and functional”. AirAsia has achieved its title as “The World Lowest Cost Airline‚” and was also one of the world’s most profitable airlines. This report provides an analysis and evaluation of internal and external of the company. Methods of analysis
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PEST and SWOT analysis of AirAsias international business operations 1.1Background AirAsia was set up by Dato’ Tony Fernandes in 2001. In December 2001‚ Fernandes and his partners set up Tune Air Sdn Bhd (Tune Air)‚ an airline holding company then bought over AirAsia. Now‚ AirAsia has become one of the most successful airlines in the Southeast Asian region and the pioneer of low cost and no frills travel in Malaysia. The leading low fare airline in the Asia - AirAsia has been expanding rapidly since
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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 Irish low cost carrier Ryanair’s former director‚ a new business model for
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AIR ASIA AIRLINES COMPANY COMPANY BACKGROUND AirAsia was established by a Malaysian conglomerate in 1993 and commenced operations in 1996. In 2001‚ due to the airline heavily in debt‚ AirAsia was bought by Tony Fernandes of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd from DRB-Hicom. Tony took up the RM40million debt as part of the purchase. In 2002‚ AirAsia generates a profit and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur. In 2003‚ the airline opened a second hub at Senai International Airport‚ Johor Bahru and launched
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