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...Fernandes, a fast-talking, 40-year-old Malaysian, has become the poster child for the new movement. A 12-year veteran at Warner Music in Asia, Fernandes sold his pricey AOL Time Warner stock options and in 2001 bought into a sleepy two-plane airline in Kuala 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...
...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...
...were all building cathedral-like airports; now, they must have their performing-arts palaces. Singapore has its two-year-old Esplanade complex, with a sonic environment created by the legendary American acoustician Russell Johnson, which is regarded by expert listeners as one of the best halls anywhere. In Kuala Lumpur, oil money built a stunning new hall at the base of the Petronas Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened a 1,500-seat mixed...
...Lakshya?which opened last Friday everywhere from Mumbai to Kuala Lumpur, London to New York?looks destined to be this year's big Bollywood blockbuster. If so, the key to its success will be the fearless and fastidious professionalism that Akhtar has brought to an industry too often doomed by technical sloppiness and a numbing lack of originality. Unusually for Bollywood, where directors often turn out five movies a year, Akhtar took more than two years to bring the script and music (both by his father, Javed) to the screen. Breaking with the norm again, Akhtar insisted on a continuous...
Europe's budget airline passengers have become used to seats that don't recline and onboard bottled water that costs extra. Coming soon: the no-frills terminal. As early as 2006, airports in Marseille and Geneva plan to open terminals catering to low-cost airlines; Kuala Lumpur and Singapore may follow. "Don't expect carpeting," warns Loïc Chovelon, spokesman for Marseille Provence Airport, which plans to spend up to 314.5 million to convert an old cargo facility into a spartan self-service terminal. Passengers will collect their tickets from automated booths and, after clearing security, tag their...