How to start your own AirAsia-A re-post in light of recent comments
Tony Fernandes , as reported on 18 June 2011: "Tun Dr Mahathir is the father of modern Malaysia and he has been one of Malaysia's greatest visionary leaders. He gave me, Datuk Kamarudin Meranun, Datuk Aziz Bakar and Datuk Pahamin Rejab the chance to start AirAsia. "To hear him say such great things about us, I've to say that it's one of my and AirAsia staff proudest days," said AirAsia group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes. (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/6/18/nation/20110618193048&sec=nation) And now , my post from 2007: Air Asia Bhd ( or the Company) is the first and at present only LCC in Malaysia. It was also the first LCC in southeast asia. The Company’s life as an airline may be described as being in two phases, first as a Malaysian Government owned national carrier, and then in its present incarnation, as a LCC. AirAsia as a full service carrier Air Asia Bhd began life in 1993 as a subsidiary of the Malaysian G