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Finance of Manager
FIANCE FOR MANAGER

ASSIGNMENT

Submission Date: 05th May 2013

Question:

You are required to evaluate the financial performance of AirAsia Bhd. over its recent two years operation.

* A brief description of the AirAsia Bhd.’s history, the nature of products/services in operation and the objectives.

Figure 1.0 Air Asia Logo.
AirAsia Berhad (MYX: 5099) is a Malaysian low-cost airline headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. AirAsia Berhad is Asia's largest, and the world's best, low-fare, no-frills airline and a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia. AirAsia group operates scheduled domestic and international flights to Seventy Eight (78) destinations spanning Twenty Five (25) countries. Its main hub is the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and will be soon relocate to KLIA 2. Its affiliate airlines Thai AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, AirAsia Philippines and AirAsia Japan have hubs in Don Mueang International Airport, Soekarno – Hatta International Airport, Clark International Airport and Narita International Airport respectively. AirAsia's registered office is in Petaling Jaya, Selangor while its head office is at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
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, has a crew productivity level that is triple that of Malaysia Airlines, and achieves an average aircraft utilization rate of 13 hours a day. All scheduled AirAsia departures from Kuala Lumpur use the Low Cost Carrier Terminal. AirAsia had abolished its fuel surcharges on November 2008, but, due to rising oil prices, the fuel surcharge was re-introduced in May 2011.
AirAsia was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate, DRB-Hicom. On 2nd December 2001

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