Congratulation to AirAsia being listed in Fast 50

In the March 2008 issue of Fast Company magazine, their panel of editors has nominated a list of The World's Most Innovative Companies, they called it Fast 50. Being a Malaysian, I am proud to notice that AirAsia, our Malaysian company had made it and ranked #43 in this list.

Below are what they've written about AirAsia.

Seven years ago, former music exec Tony Fernandes paid 25 cents for an ailing carrier with two creaky planes and $12 million in debt. Today, AirAsia's bottom-of-the-pyramid strategy has created one of the world's fastest-growing, most-profitable carriers, with the lowest operating costs in the industry and fares as cheap as $3. "It's like our bus," says Yap Choo Ying, who runs a market stall in eastern Malaysia and now regularly jets to Kuala Lumpur to see her grandkids. In November, the Malaysian company made a risky bet by going long-haul, adding flights to Australia; this year, it will add flights to China and India, where billions of people have yet to take to the skies.

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