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Air Asia Berhad is the only Malaysian-based low cost airline and also a pioneer of low- cost travel in Asia. The main hub is the low-cost carrier terminal (LCCT) at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Air Asia was established in the year 1993 and started its operations on the 18 November 1996.
Originally, it was founded by a DRB-HICOM which is the government owned conglomerate. Then, Tony Fernandes’s company which is Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. bought the company on the 8 September 2001 with estimation of RM 40 million debts.
The operations of Air Asia began on 8 December 2001 until now. There are many continuous transformations that Air Asia makes in order to succeed, to achieve its strategic mission and vision and also to sustain in the industry. According to the continuous transformations by the Air Asia, we can classify it into three main phases which are Phase I (from the year 2001- 2004), Phase II (from the year 2005 to 2008) and Phase III (from the year 2009 to present). For further overview, we narrow down the changes based on the: 1. The company and its marketing 2. The customer relationship management
The company is includes how Air Asia planning the changes they want to implement and what Air Asia do in order to increase its effectiveness. Then, the marketing is refers to the changes in terms of marketing. Lastly, the customer relationship management is refers to the ways and strategies that Air Asia used to build and maintain its relationship with its

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