BACKGROUND
- Tan Sri Anthony Francis “Tony” Fernandes is a malaysian indian. His father is a malaysian indian , and his mother is a portugis . He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. Who is the first person created the budget airline , who letting poor people can fly . His company ( AirAsia ) slogan is ‘everyone can fly ‘.
- Fernandes managed to turn AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies.
- Tony fernandes also instrumental in lobbying the then-Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in mid-2003. In 2003 he propose the idea to prime minister of open skies agreements with neighbouring Thailand , Singapore and indonesia .
Earlier years At a young age , he used to follow his mother a businesswoman, to tupperware dealer parties and conventions . He educated at The Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur, Epsom college from 1977 to 1983. .
Air Asia
Air asia berhad is a malaysian low cost airline , headquartered in kuala lumpur . It named as the world’s best low cost airline . AirAsia had spanning with 25 country . It main hub is the low cost carrier terminal LCCT at kuala lumpur international airport . It also having a parthner ship with indonesia , singapore , pillipinnes and thailand . AirAsia operates with the world’s lowest unit cost of USD 0.023/ASK and a passenger break-even load factor of 52%. It has hedged 100% of its fuel requirements for the next three years, achieves an aircraft turnaround time of 25 minutes.
Fleet
The total AirAsia fleet (excluding AirAsia X) consists of the following aircraft (as of September 2013):
AirAsia had witnessed a continuous growth in the amount of revenue passenger kilometres. Click graph to enlarge.
| Aircraft | In fleet | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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| Airbus A319-100 | 1 | 0 | 144 | Aircraft are distributed as follows:
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| Airbus A320-200 | 131 | 88 | 180 | Aircraft are distributed as follows:
From 2013 onwards Airasia received A320-200 equipped with sharklets |
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| Airbus A320neo | 0 | 264 | 180 | Entering into Service in 2016 | ||
| Total | 132 | 352 | ||||
- Tony fernandes is using autocratic for his company airasia . Autocratic leadership, also known as authoritarian leadership, is a leadership style characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members. Autocratic leader can do decision based on the group member ideas. Autocratic leadership involves absolute, authoritarian control over a group .
- The leadership style of Tony Fernandes is not very clear as sometimes we see him as an autocratic leader. He instructed his staff to get things done. As an example he wanted to install the mechanism for the handicap people at zero cost. He did not discuss with anyone, his instruction was executed.
- He can be also considered as a democratic leader, when once he said during an interview “We have grown AirAsia together, with everybody pitching in with ideas, actively finding new ways to increase efficiency, improving services by effectively combining technology and the personal touch, and aggressively and smartly marketing our brand,” through this activity of brainstorming. As an example he decided to expand his route network in 2007. He launched Air Asia X the world’s only low-cost, long-haul airline. He wants Air Asia X to fly to several cities in Australia, China, Middle East and London. Tony’s idea is to link the three continents of Australia, Asia and Europe at fares that are a fraction of that charged by traditional legacy carriers.
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