This name is not more
uncommon for Malaysian people. Dato’ Kamarudin Meranum is listed in Forbes
richest people in Malaysia as the number #19th. He is the
co-founders of Tune Group and still the Deputy Group Chief Executive Director
of Air Asia since 2001. His assets are recorded around RM1.480billion with
shares are told to be 39.44% of Tune Air. Alongside Tan Sri Tony Fernandes,
Kamarudin Meranum has build up Tune Group and help the corporation to sign up
for more types of business such as building hospitals, even management, finance
and also telecommunication (Tune Talk). As the firm is growing globally,
Kamarudin Meranum is also been known in other places.
On June 14, 2012, Kamarudin
Meranum unveils the new official Air Asia nerve centre, Air Asia ASEAN, as a
strategy on regional growth of the company. Air Asia ASEAN is understood to
oversee the expansion blueprint for the carrier’s six subsidiary airlines which
are five anchored in ASEAN and one in Japan. By doing this, Air Asia could expand
their market base to 600 million people and bring ASEAN closer with them as
well as Malaysia. Tony Fernandes and Kamarudin Meranum have come out with a new
strategy which is “within four-hour flight radii”. Meaning, all AirAsia flight
will only fly to a destination which is less than 4 hours flying time. This
will help Air Asia to bring in the mega population in China, India, Japan as
well as South Korea to Malaysia.
“Shifting Air Asia’s emphasis to regional strategy
is, we believe, not just good business, but also a move that will keep us ahead
of the inevitable competition that is heading our way,” said Fernandes.
He added that
establishing Air Asia ASEAN in Jakarta would also allow the airline to ride the
wave of increasing regional integration due to the impending implementation of
ASEAN Open Skies and ASEAN Economic Community initiatives.
“One of the reasons for locating the office in
Jakarta is to help us engage more closely with the ASEAN Secretariat, which is
headquartered here. Air Asia ASEAN will help ensure that our voice, our
concerns and appeals are heard much more clearly in the corridors of power with
ASEAN,” he explained.
Quizzed by TTG
Asia e-Daily on what the airline was expecting from ASEAN member
governments, Fernandes said: “I hope that (our new office and growth strategy)
will spur ASEAN governments into further integration. For example, in Europe
there is one open sky, one aviation authority to regulate jobs...”
This move from Air Asia will
not just help the company but also it will bust up the Malaysian economy as
what the Prime Minister, Dato’ Sri Najib is doing today (9/9/12) in APEC to try
bring more foreigners inside the country. This movement from Kamarudin Meranum
and Tony Fernandes should be supported by the Malaysian people in the years
coming.
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