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Committed, focused on the future at Loftus Road … 5 Apr 2013 | 12:36 pm
THEY say you make your own luck in professional sport. I can’t say I disagree with that to be honest, but sometimes things just don’t go your way for one reason or another. This season, at Queens Pa...
Number 63 24 Oct 2012 | 07:15 am
What a weekend. Malaysia got its first podium finish at the World Motorcycle Championships thanks to a wonderful performance by AirAsia-SIC-Ajo rider Zulfahmi Khairuddin. Fahmi may have narrowly lost...
The value of openness 9 Oct 2012 | 10:11 am
I’ve always felt that competition breeds winners. Being put to the test helps to bring out the very best in people as well as organisations, and it’s not much of a fight if there’s only one team out o...
Home is where the heart is 24 Sep 2012 | 08:53 am
Malindo’s entry into Malaysia shows that the future of the region’s aviation industry is Asean. Tapping into a combined market of 600 million people is a no-brainer, and I’m proud to say AirAsia was ...
The customer is always right 19 Sep 2012 | 09:00 am
Build and they will come. That seems to be how airport operators see budget airlines. Too often no-frills terminals are cobbled together without any understanding of how low-cost carriers work. So it...
Believe the Unbelievable, Dream the Impossible and Never Take No for an Answer...one more to do, perhaps? 24 Aug 2012 | 06:40 am
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/specials/raffles-conversation/high-flying-honcho-20120818 An article in Singapore’s Business Times I thought I’d share with all of you. TONY Fernandes recently had hi...
Its a special day for me. 20 Jul 2012 | 10:09 am
Airasia is a dream and a fairy tale. What we have achieved no one could have believed. From that dream me and Kamarudin have been able to buy a Premier League team called Queens Park Rangers. I used...
What a difference a year makes 16 Jul 2012 | 11:38 am
August 18, 2011, was the day that my partners and friends Kamarudin (Meranun ), Ruben (Gnanalingam) and I took over Queens Park Rangers, with the Mittal family as the other shareholders. All I heard ...
We didn't start the fire 9 Jul 2012 | 09:19 pm
As expected, the usual suspects had a go at Aireen and myself for expressing our serious concerns regarding KLIA2. I don’t know what their agenda is but we’re the villains in their spotty narrative wh...
What's with the new terminal? 4 Jul 2012 | 10:22 am
When KLIA2 was first proposed, Malaysia Airports (MAHB) said it would cost RM2 billion, a figure that was later revised to RM2.6 billion. Then came news that the terminal would cost RM4 billion, doubl...