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...Lumpur. He now has 18 planes and is looking to buy 80 more over the next eight years. From starting with only 12 flights a day, AirAsia currently has a hundred. On July 1 alone, AirAsia launched its first flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, added a second to Bangkok and announced two more to Malaysian cities. Four days later, Fernandes was on AirAsia's first flight from Bangkok to the gambling mecca of Macau. Upcoming in August: flights to Bali. He's also eyeing China and India. Fernandes boasts, "We have transformed the way people think about flying...
...cheap fares are luring Asians away from rickety buses, inefficient trains and traffic-choked highways and convincing many to travel more often. Laykha Boonlerd, a 26-year-old bank employee in Kuala Lumpur, could never before afford to fly to Bangkok to see her family and instead made an excruciating 24-hour pilgrimage by bus and train. But with a one-way ticket on AirAsia costing only $26-much less than the price she says she was quoted on national-flag carrier Malaysia Airlines-she decided to fly to Bangkok for the first time in July. "I will travel much...
...rivalry among no-frills flyers is already getting brutal. Udom Tantiprasongchai, chief executive of Orient Thai Airlines, says fierce competition from AirAsia and flag carrier Thai Airways has forced him to slash the fare on his One-Two-Go budget service from Bangkok to Chiang Mai to less than $25, about 30% lower than he had planned. At that price, he admits he's losing money. But Udom has wreaked revenge. He says he routinely employs a team in his office to go on the Internet and buy up as many of the cheapest tickets on AirAsia flights as they...
...years, international health experts have pointed to Thailand as a rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...
...Many of the Staar's regulars live on the square and refer to themselves as "Squaronians." Over the years, they have included the locally celebrated Mekhong Kurt, Generous George, Speedo Keith and a host of other larger-than-life characters, some of whom have been bouncing around Bangkok for decades. After more than a few fingers of bourbon, Squaronians delight in chewing the fat under the Texas Aggie flag and the moth-eaten Cape buffalo head that?alongside yellowed Waylon Jennings and Kitty Wells record covers?grace the bar's wood-paneled walls. They'll wax nostalgic over fortunes made...