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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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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Question : How would you describe Fernandes’ entrepreneurial strategy? 1. General. Tony Fernandes was a risk taker; he bought his airline without prior knowledge about aviation as well as firsthand experience with the airline industry. He said in one of the interviews‚ “Go with your gut‚ give it your best bet and you may fail‚ but don’t give up” (INSEAD Knowledge‚ 2007). This statement shows the type of the person that he is. He is an independently-minded person who knows when to trust his gut
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A successful example of a Malaysian no frills airline is Air Asia. Revolutionized and Reinvented by Tony Fernandez in 2001. It is based on the low-cost‚ no-frills model of the US carrier Southwest. The concept of Air Asia is based on the belief that demands for short-haul air transport is price flexible. That means‚ if prices for flights are being reduced‚ more people will fly. Traditionally‚ airline concepts are based on the assumption that airline traffic grows in line with the economy and that
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President‚ ASEAN until 2001 at Warner Music South East Asia. When Time Warner Inc. merged with America Online Inc.‚ he quitted his job and starts his journey to fulfill his childhood dream. This idea is generated when he was studying in England and wanted to go home during term break but was rejected by his father because the flights tickets that time are expensive. Later‚ he started a company under the name of Tune Air Sdn Bhd to take over Air Asia‚ Malaysia’s second national carrier with the tagline
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Have you ever call up to AirAsia customer service hotline? What do you think about the customer service hotline? For me‚ it’s totally a pain to call them up. Why is it so? I recently made a call to the customer service hotline to change my flight to a later date. First when I was connected‚ I get a recorded message that last 30 seconds which is not 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
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Journal of Adult Development‚ Vol. 11‚ No. 3‚ July 2004 ( C 2004) Division of Labor Among Lesbian and Heterosexual Parenting Couples: Correlates of Specialized Versus Shared Patterns Charlotte J. Patterson‚1‚2 Erin L. Sutfin‚1 and Megan Fulcher1 One of the central tasks that couples face in coparenting is the division of labor. In this study‚ we explored division of family labor among lesbian and heterosexual couples who were parenting 4 to 6 year-old children. Sixty-six families‚ half
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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 concept
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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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3) Ryanair was introduced as a low-cost airline in 1991‚ CEO Michael O’Leary used the low-cost American‚ SouthWest airline model to plan their tactical direction. Ryanair has set values‚ which they want to succeed in such as: product leader‚ operationally excellent and being intimate with their customers. ( Dbuccellato2011‚ 2012) As for Southwest airlines‚ it is a people-oriented company and uses that orientation to leverage its advantages. It cuts costs by having employees who work for a company
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