Tony Fernandes
Tony Fernandes
Tan Sri Anthony Francis "Tony" Fernandes, CBEis a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". Fernandes managed to turn AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies...
NationalityMalaysian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 April 1964
CityKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CountryMalaysia
Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
Watch out, Singapore, is all I have to say.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.
I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.
Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.