KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia will not give up on securing a licence to operate in Singapore, despite having been rejected three times, says Capital A chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes.
“Don’t block me in Singapore,” he said. “Three times we had applied for an airline licence, three times we were rejected. We have airlines in Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
“We could get other Asean countries but Singapore has blocked us all the time because it protects its airlines,” he said after the opening of 14-line Asia Digital Engineering’s maintenance, repair and overhaul hangar at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday.
Commenting on his post on Linkedln about SIA Engineering Co (SIAEC), he said that he had no problem with the company coming to Malaysia.
SIAEC had signed a 15-year agreement with Khazanah Nasional Bhd’s subsidiary company, Impeccable Vintage Properties, to lease two hangars at the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang. — Bernama
