PP16832/01/2013 (031128) Malaysia Initiating Coverage 10 September 2013 AirAsia X Buy (new) King Of Low-Cost‚ Long-Haul Share price: Target price: MYR1.05 MYR1.30 (new) High growth potential. AirAsia X is an excellent exposure to the low cost‚ long-haul (LCLH) industry which is enjoying breakneck growth rate and outdoing the general aviation market growth of 5.0% by a factor of 2-3x. The LCLH segment is relatively more defensive compared to full service carriers (FSC)‚ as more people switch
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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). In 2003‚ AirAsia opened a second hub at Senai Airport in Johor Bahru near Singapore and launched its first international flight to Bangkok. AirAsia has since started a Thai subsidiary‚ added Singapore itself to the destination list‚ and commenced flights to Indonesia. Flights to Macau started in June 2004‚ while flights to Mainland
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Analysis Strengths The achievement that AirAsia received in 2012 is the world’s best low cost airline (AirAsia Berhad‚ 2013). The strength of AirAsia is that‚ they are leading low cost airline in today’s world and have good company strategic management with a successful story in the airplane industry. Their operational strategy that they have formulated at the beginning is consistent with their company’s objectives and was well conducted. Due to this‚ AirAsia able to create strong brand equity and
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Chapter I: Introduction 1.1 Company Background AirAsia Berhad‚ which is also known as AirAsia‚ is an airline company that provides air transportation service. The airline was established in 1993 and started operation 18 November 1996. A government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom originally founded it. They were having heavily indebted on December 2‚2001. An executive from company Tune Air Sdn‚ Tonny Fernandes‚ purchased it. The company’s headquarters is in Sepang‚ Selangor‚ Malaysia. After Tonny
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perception of low-cost travel‚ giving rise to a diverse cross-section of passengers. The AirAsia chief executive says: "We show that low-cost does not mean low class. In the Jakarta-Kuala Lumpur flight‚ you’ll find women with diamonds sitting beside maids. You could not see that before. That shows we’re reaching everyone." 1) Geographic characteristics The geographic characteristics of the target market of AirAsia are within the Australasian region. Attract people from Australia who wish to visit the
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Introduction of AirAsia In Malaysia‚ there are 3 main airlines which are Malaysian Airline (MAS)‚ AirAsia‚ and Firefly. AirAsia Berhad is starting its operation in November 2004‚ which is listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia. It start developing a low cost airline model (LCC) in Asia since 2001‚ it has grown from a domestic flight in Malaysia for more than 55 destinations served for 5 leading airline hub in Malaysia which are Thai AirAsia‚ Indonesia AirAsia‚ Philippines AirAsia and Japan AirAsia. AirAsia
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Air Asia AirAsia Berhad‚ is a Malaysian low-cost airline. It operates scheduled domestic and international flights and is Asia’s largest low fare‚ no frills airline. AirAsia was a pioneer of low cost flights in Asia. It is also the first airline in the region to implement fully ticketless travel and unassigned seats. However‚ as of 5 February 2009‚ AirAsia has implemented allocated seatings across all AirAsia flights‚ including in their sister airlines‚ Indonesia AirAsia and Thai AirAsia. Its main
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it has successfully paved a viable way for its continual development in the aviation business. And now base in its headquarter‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Air Asia has expanded its route network by connecting more than 20 countries and regions with the recently open flights connecting Tokyo and Paris though still the intra Southeast Asia middle to short distance flights still are the core business of the group‚ below is the route map of Air Asia flights originated from Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia. Figure 1
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MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) has admitted that it is tough fighting a low-cost carrier (LCC). It has decided to use its wholly owned unit‚ Firefly‚ to take on AirAsia. Firefly will turn into a true blue LCC and use jets in the attack. On Monday‚ Firefly said it would fly commercial jets for domestic routes and begin with crossover routes‚ e.g. Kota Kinabalu and Kuching‚ on Jan 15. Asean will be its next stop. Its B737-800s will take off from KL International Airport (KLIA). Firefly wants to have
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Strength and weakness of AirAsia |strength |weakness | |Low cost operations. |Service resource is limited by lower costs. | |Fewer management levels‚ effective‚ focused and aggressive |Government interference and regulation on airport deals and | |management.
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