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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Company overview: Air Asia After acquiring Air Asia from the Malaysian government in 2002‚ Tony Fernandes completely altered the business model of its previous owners and re-established the company with just 3 air planes. Owing debts of about 11 million U.S‚ this move was very risky; however by offering low cost prices‚ the company was able to attract sufficient travellers. After acquisition‚ 5 years later Air Asia became renowned globally as the least expensive airline in terms of cost per seat
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Air Asia is a carrier which was built up in 1993 and began its operations on November eighteenth‚ 1996. On 2nd December 2001‚ the vigorously obligated carrier was obtained by Tony Fernandes‚ proprietor of Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token whole of RM1 (Jusmpstart Malaysia‚ 2011). As a feature of the buy‚ Tony likewise took up the RM40million obligation. In any case‚ under the initiative of Tony Fernandes‚ today‚ Air Asia is a world renowned ease carrier that works broad systems both locally and globally
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Case Study: Air Asia Identify the competitive advantages of Air Asia as a low cost carrier. Air Asia has a number of competitive advantages as a low cost carrier that fall into the following general categories; low cost operations‚ efficiency of operations‚ proven business model and management expertise and finally a distinctive corporate culture. Low cost operations: Air Asia has gone to great lengths to ensure all of their operational costs are kept to an absolute minimum‚ and have passed
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33-35 Bangunan Systematic‚ Jln Hang Lekiu‚ 50100 KL SEGi College Kuala Lumpur (SCKL) PRINCIPLE OF MARKETING EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There are 4 marketing mix for Air Asia such as product‚ price‚ place and promotion. Air Asia should improve their service to satisfy their customer. ASSIGNMENT ALLOCATION OF MARKS NO. DESCRIPTION OF CRITERIA ADOPTED THAT WILL BE USED FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ASSIGNMENT WEIGHTINGS MARKS ALLOTTED BY LECTURER 1. Relevance of content to assignment-Executive
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Entry strategy for Airasia Marketing Management Table of Contents Objectives………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 SWOT Analysis 4 PESTEL analysis 5 Market Segmentation and Target Market 6 Positioning 7 Pricing Strategy 8 Placement Strategy: 9 Promotion Strategy: 9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11 Appendices 12 References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14 AirAsia is a Malaysian low-cost airline headquartered near
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Background and History of AirAsia 3-4 2.2 Vision Statement 5 2.3 Mission Statement 5 2.4 Objectives 5 3.0 Environmental Analysis 6 3.1 PESTEL Analysis 6 3.1.1 Political Factors 7-8 3.1.2 Economic Factors 8-9 3.1.3 Social Factors 9-11 3.1.4 Technological Factors 11 3.1.5 Environmental Factors 11-12 3.2 PORTER’s 5 Forces Model Analysis 12 3.2.1 Threats of New Entrants 12-13 3.2.2 Threats of Substitute 13-14 3.2.3 Bargaining
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Q1.Competitive Advantage Explain Competitive advantage Air Asia build up their competitive advantage form providing customer lowest price and omit theunnecessary service. For example‚ Air Asia install kiosks to speed up check-in. With those innovations‚ it truly making aviation become more convenient. The customers and the operations are around Asia. Air Asia use IT to connect and integrate those end-to-end support processes. As a member of the AirAsia Team have highly competitive and
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also discuss the culture and management style of AirAsia and its ability to address to the challenges faced by the company. Furthermore‚ the report aims at highlighting the expansions of AirAsia with future expectations. Background of AirAsia Air Asia‚ an ailing‚ in debt‚ government owned airline was purchased by Tony Fernandes‚ a Malaysian Indian entrepreneur in 2001. Fernandes invested all his valuables and saving in purchasing this airline company that only possessed two Boeings and was deeply
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capabilities (i.e. cost and efficiency optimization/utilization) as a low-cost carrier (LCC) airline. Analysis The airline industry as a whole is quite competitive with multiple players and various elements effecting the industry environment. AirAsia has developed a specific set of resources and core competencies that it has exploited in order to become the leading short-haul LCC in South East Asia. AirAsia’s strategy employs cost and efficiency optimization by utilizing its key resources; thus‚
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