AirAsia complains over discrimination on landing rights
Air Asia has accused Singapore of discrimination after the city state awarded long sought-after landing rights to a rival Indonesian carrier, a report said Monday. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) this month granted Indonesia’s AdamAir the rights to three daily flights from Jakarta after stalling an application from AirAsia’s Indonesian affiliate Awair. “Suddenly, AdamAir gets the right to fly to Singapore which appears to be a decision that discriminates against us,” AirAsia’s chief executive Tony Fernandes told the Financial Times newspaper. Singapore “is a country that is supposed to welcome open competition, but they are scared of us” because the city state’s own budget carriers are struggling, he said.
Prahok @ October 17, 2005
[...] AFP reports that AirAsia has finally given up trying to gain landing rights to Singapore and will instead continue to fly its passengers to Johor (AirAsia’s version of Singapore). This comes at the end of a long campaign to try to gain lading rights there. Perhaps now they’ll update their website to make it clear where the passengers are actually flying to. [...]