AirAsia has been expanding by leaps and bounds over a rather short span while the national airlines MAS has been suffering huge losses year after year until Idris Jala successfully turn it around a couple of year ago. Tony Fernandes is surely one of the most innovative entrepreneur who thinks outside the box. AirAsia which is synonymous to Fernandes is one of the most successful business story highly rated by the industry. With the expansion of Labu LCCT, Fernandes is eyeing for 60 million passengers in 2013 with a combined total of 184 aircraft, making MAS shamefully left behind with the estimated fleet of 125.
The concept of AirAsia which clearly shown in its tag line "Now Everyone Can Fly' is the main success factor for this budget airline to outperform its elderly brother MAS. I have to travel every quarterly to Padang, Indonesia since 1999. From Pelangi Air to MAS, none of them last long. Pelangi used to fly to Padang with its Fokker which could sometime be a nightmare to the passengers. I can recall there were far too frequent delays, the worst being a 10 am flight delayed a couple of time until finally took off at night due to mechanical problems. When MAS was operating that route just two or three years ago, it was not even quarter full at times. Now, with AirAsia, the flight to Padang is mostly occupied as the fares are cheaper especially to the Indonesia passengers. Most of my friends working in Indonesia often praise AirAsia as it is much cheaper for them to fly back to be with their family. Similarly, those Indonesia passengers coming over to Malaysia for medical treatment or shopping can now enjoy very much cheaper air fares as compared to MAS.
I think Najib should consider making Tony his finance minister when he comes into power in March, 2009. Then Tony can make use of his exceptional talent and innovations to make everything cheap for us. Cheap toll, cheap petrol, cheap food, cheap house, cheap education, cheap police summons, cheap taxes, cheap car. How nice?................I must be dreaming.
The concept of AirAsia which clearly shown in its tag line "Now Everyone Can Fly' is the main success factor for this budget airline to outperform its elderly brother MAS. I have to travel every quarterly to Padang, Indonesia since 1999. From Pelangi Air to MAS, none of them last long. Pelangi used to fly to Padang with its Fokker which could sometime be a nightmare to the passengers. I can recall there were far too frequent delays, the worst being a 10 am flight delayed a couple of time until finally took off at night due to mechanical problems. When MAS was operating that route just two or three years ago, it was not even quarter full at times. Now, with AirAsia, the flight to Padang is mostly occupied as the fares are cheaper especially to the Indonesia passengers. Most of my friends working in Indonesia often praise AirAsia as it is much cheaper for them to fly back to be with their family. Similarly, those Indonesia passengers coming over to Malaysia for medical treatment or shopping can now enjoy very much cheaper air fares as compared to MAS.
I think Najib should consider making Tony his finance minister when he comes into power in March, 2009. Then Tony can make use of his exceptional talent and innovations to make everything cheap for us. Cheap toll, cheap petrol, cheap food, cheap house, cheap education, cheap police summons, cheap taxes, cheap car. How nice?................I must be dreaming.
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