1. INTRODUCTION TO AIR ASIA 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND AirAsia Berhad was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by government owned conglomerate‚ DRB Hicom. On 2 December 2001‚ the heavily in debted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit (about USD 0.26 at the time) with USD 11 million (MYR 40 million) worth of debts. Fernandes turned the company around
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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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Contents 1 Organization – AirAsia 3 1.1 Overview 3 1.2 Products and Services offered 4 1.3 Channels of distribution 4 1.4 Sales and Marketing 5 1.5 Organization Structure 7 1.6 Market Share 8 1.7 SWOT Analysis 9 2 IT for Managers 10 3 E-Business and E-Commerce 11 3.1 Uses of 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
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OUMM2103 1.0 INTRODUCTION TO AIR ASIA AirAsia 1 : The AirAsia Logo AirAsia was established in 1993 by DRB-Hicom‚ a Government-owned conglomerate. It started operations in 1996. Tune Air Sdn Bhd‚ Tony Fernandes’s company purchased this heavily indebted airline business from DRB-Hicom in 2001. AirAsia managed to become profitable and world renowned low-cost airline through visionary leadership and innovative business approach. Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) at Kuala Lumpur International is AirAsia’s
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1. STRATEGY IS KEY: a) What is the macro and industry environment in the South East Asian region for the entrance of new budget airlines? What opportunities and challenges are associated with that environment? The South East Asian region offers huge opportunities for the entrance of new low-fare airlines. Analyst revealed that low fares are often the deciding factors for budget-conscious travelers in Southeast Asia. This region represents a huge population‚ which offers low-fare airlines a
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able to skip by pressing any number. After making the right way into speaking to a customer service representative‚ I was put on the line for more than 20 minutes for listening to their annoying music and machine recorded voice: "Thank you for wating. All our customer service representatives are currently busy. Please continues to hold or feels free to call back us later." Oh! That’s great. I was paying expensive call charges to listen to that annoying music and machine recorded answer and in
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Part A (20 marks) Choose the BEST answers. Write your answer into the Answer Sheet provided. 1. Computer ____ entails having the knowledge and understanding of computers and their uses. a. literacy c. legitimacy b. intimacy d. infancy 2. A(n) ____ is an electronic device‚ operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory‚ that can accept data‚ process the data according to specified rules‚ produce results‚ and store the results for future use. a. input device c
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environment‚ Air Asia has reaped great benefit by applying low cost advantage in its business model. By the combination of technology advancement in its selling and marketing strategy and also strong recognition of various languages used by its world customers‚ AirAsia has successfully developed its business into a widely known best performance company in Southeast Asia airlines industry. Keyword：AirAsia‚ low cost carrier‚ web design‚ business model‚ strategy Analyzing Air Asia in Business
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AirAsia is Malaysia’s second national airline was incorporated in 1993 as a full-service regional airline under DRB-Hicom. They started their operations on 1996. After starting their operations for several years‚ AirAsia failed to attract enough 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
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Malaysia Airline (MAS) and Air Asia is the main air transport in Malaysia. The passengers of this two flight company are increasing every year. Their have also creates a lot of destinations to let the customers choose. I have chosen three articles for my reference. The first article is about interview of new Malaysia Airlines chief executive Azmil Zahruddin. “We are constantly monitoring our network and focusing on the religion that we feel will have high demand‚ and allow us to increase
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