AIR ASIA Company profile: Air Asia needs no introduction in ASEAN‚ where it is the leading low-cost carrier‚ connecting people and places across 132 routes‚ 40 of which are offered by no other airline. In 2010‚ the Group‚ which includes affiliates Air Asia Thailand and Air Asia Indonesia‚ reinforced its leadership position with two remarkable milestones: flying its 100 millionth guest and breaking the RM1 billion(ringgit) profit barrier. From an airline with two aircraft plying six routes in Malaysia
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INTRODUCTION Air Asia is a Malaysia Low Cost Carrier Airline Company which was founded in 2001 by Tony Fernandes. The company provides a totally different type of service in line with the nation’s goal which is to benefit all people and worldwide travellers. The main service takes the form of no frills. Before 2011‚ it is a money losing airlines operated by the government which after that became a successful airline company after being taken over by Tony Fernandes. It can be said it is a remarkable
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Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit. Fernandes proceeded to engineer a remarkable turnaround‚ turning a profit in 2002 and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur International Airport at breakneck speed‚ undercutting former monopoly operator Malaysia Airlines with promotional fares as low as RM1 (US $0.27). AirAsia has been expanding rapidly since 2001‚ to become an award winning and the largest low cost carrier in Asia. Organization A new budget
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passengers to establish its own niche market due to the demise of Tan Sri Yahaya Ahmad and financial crisis. Hence‚ AirAsia was heavily indebted. In 2001‚ Tony Fernandes’s company‚Tune Air Sdn Bhd bought this airline from DRB-Hicom with estimation of RM 40 million debts. There are many continuous transformations that Air Asia makes in order to become outstanding‚ to accomplish its strategic mission and vision and maintain sustainability in the industry. Using the catchy and effective slogan of "Now everyone
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Links: below). Air Asia is currently the largest and the most successful budget airline in the whole of Southeast Asia‚ pioneered by Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes. He privately bought Air Asia‚ then an ailing government-linked airline and turned it around as a no-frills budget airline until it was profitable and publicly listed. Possibly the only
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E-Commerce in AIR ASIA 11 3.2 Benefits of E-commerce to Air Asia 12 4 Data Management 13 5 Organizational ISs 15 6 Enterprise Systems 17 7 Management Decision Support 19 8 IT/IS for Competitive Advantage 20 8.1 Porter’s 5 Forces 20 8.2 Value Chain Analysis 20 8.3 Competitive Advantages using IT/IS 21 9 Recommendation and Conclusion 22 REFERENCES 23 APPENDIX A: AirAsia’s Marketing Strategy 24 APPENDIX B: Potential Suggestion for AirAsia 27 Organization – AirAsia 1 Overview Air Asia
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BIS 541 MANAGING INFORMATION SYSTEM TMA 1 Executive Summary The use of Information technology is important to build the strategic and operation management of airlines‚ and help to build the future airlines successfully. The emergence of the Internet in the mid1990s as well as the development of Intranets and Extranets forced airlines to refocus their strategy on technological innovations in order to enhance their competitiveness. (Buhalis 2004). AirAsia believes in the low fare business
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SWOT : AIR ASIA Strengths 1. low cost operation 2. target mass customers 3. efficiency workforce 4. Staffs have multi skill to do their job. 5. single type fleet to service the customer‚ it easies to maintenance. 6. lowest fare more than others. 7. Sell the ticket direct to the customer. Weakness 1. Limited service to the customer. 2. charge every things except the ticket 3. A lot of competitor. 4. Brand positioning lower than other brand. 5
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Thailand – Northern Malaysian border. • Malaysia granted exploration rights in oil-rich waters off the coast of Borneo; increased tensions with Indonesia. • Terrorism has occurred in Thailand and Indonesia; most notably the Bali bomb of 2002. ECONOMIC ASPECTS • AirAsia holds 49% of Thai AirAsia with 1% held by a Thai individual. The remaining 50% is held by Shin Corp.‚ owned by the former Thailand prime minister‚ Thaksin Shinawatra. Shin Corp. has financial strength‚ synergy in information technology
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high efficiency in every part of the business. Efficiency creates savings that are then passed on to guests so that affordable air travel can become a reality. Through AirAsia’s philosophy of ‘Now Everyone Can Fly’‚ Air Asia has sparked a revolution in air travel with more and more people around the region choosing AirAsia as their preferred choice of transport. As Air Asia continuously
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