His early
journey towards Air Asia begins in the early 2001 when he started planning to start
a budget no free airline. A no frill airline is an airlines
that offer low fares but eliminate all non-essential services, such as
complimentary drinks snacks, in-flight entertainment systems, business-class
seating. By using a no-frill airline, it is offers a very low cost that’ll made
it possible for everyone to fly. Unfortunately, his application for a license
from the Malaysian government was rejected. With help from Datuk Pahamin A.
Rejab, the former secretary-general of the Malaysian Domestic Trade and
Consumer Affairs Ministry, he manages to meet the Prime Minister during that
time which is Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on October 2001. He had advised Tan Sri
Tony to buy an existing airline instead of starting from scratch. During that
time, AirAsia is a heavily-indebted subsidiary of the Malaysian
government-owned was quickly losing money. Tan Sri Tony manages to aquire the
company and transformed it into an industry player. Amazingly, it only took him
one year to break even cleared all its debts. Today, we can see that all his
hard work had payed off when AirAsia is one of the biggest airline companies in
Asia.
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