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AirAsia Malaysia operating 10% of fleet: Fernandes
July 14th 2021
AirAsia Group CEO, Tony Fernandes, said the LCC group's Malaysian business had about 90% of its fleet parked as a result of COVID-19. "We are very small at the moment," Fernandes told CAPA online today. Read More » "I'd say overall we would be maybe 10% of our fleet flying right now. We have probably another six weeks of this and then I think things are going to start to open up permanently." The company's most recent financial report, published in May, showed Malaysia AirAsia had 96 aircraft at the end of December 2020. The Malaysia government has imposed restrictions on movement across the country following a recent surge in COVID-19 infections. Figures from the World Health Organisation showed that on several days in the past week Malaysia had more than 9,000 new daily cases, close to double the 5,000 cases a day reported from the middle of June.
