AirAsia could raise the ticket price higher and pass the cost to the consumers. Better services would b provided to compensate the higher ticket price.
Rising oil price is not sth tat is unexpected. It would come sooner or later. A gud management team shuld b well prepared for it.

AirAsia wuld jz survive tis kind of situation. Recommend: Hold.

I think you can short AirAsia. Contact your brokerage and ask.

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Added on June 10, 2008, 6:35 pmIn the end AirAsia sold to Malaysia Airlines for 1 ringgit! LOL!!!

Now 0.85 , is it an uptrend?

Latest filing by EPF to bursa
Acquired 18/07/2008  1,000,000 
Acquired 21/07/2008  1,000,000
They are still buying , a million shares each trading day , how long can it last? Already pushed this counter up past 1 $ ...

So smart these EPF fellows , they knew the oil bubble was going to burst is it?

well, ok , after 2 days of non movement , we are finally going to see some action tomorrow ( wed ), last half hour AA moved 2 - 3 ticks upwards with respectable buys ... oil dropped 3$ !! It's now at 121$ , DJ up 160 points as of 12 noon US time ....

Now the worrying news ... EPF is buying AND selling AA stocks  ( buy 2 million , sell one million ) ... so if it goes up, there'll be profit taking by EPF .... Tony and another director has announced thier "intention to deal " , which either means they are going to either sell or buy shares in AA ... probably sell ?

Prediction ... will shoot up in the morning ...but profit taking will set in at ? 1.09 ? 1.10 ?

This stock will go up but have to hold ..... TP ?  1.20 ?

just going to the LCCT you can know how good is the business, now they are building a new Tune hotel at LCCT and also doing expansion on the terminal, Their growth look very good, the only problem is fuel but this problem is also face by all competitor, if anything people will fly more with AA because ticket getting more expensive from full service airline. thinking of buying some AA stock my self.

Their next financials will be utter crap i think , with the fuel price at it's peak since the last quarter , a reason to let go BEFORE their financials come out ?

Agree.. most magazine are paid by a company to review or write about their company stocks/products..

One best example is during transmil was RM 14. The edge put TP of RM 18.00. 

my personal view, a company future very much depend on management prospect and experience. In future, low cost flight would be majority choice as nowadays lot and lot more middle class family afford for oversea travel with AA flight.

If  i read in the annual report ended June 2007.. its EPS was 21cents

The one that ended Dec 2007...its EPS was 18cents.

so hopefully if Im not mistaken..AA has a very good PE of 5 based on June 2007 earnings.

Current Year Quarter 30/06/2008
Revenue 608,383
Profit/(Loss) before Tax (46,901) 
Profit/(Loss) after Tax and Minority Interest 9,417 
Net Profit/(Loss) for the Period 9,417 
Basic Earnings/(Loss) per Shares(sen) 0.40

Anyone know what is the intitial stock price for Airasia during launching ?

and by glancing at their financial report, i realize they split their stocks quite often. doesn't seem like a good thing for the investors.

the latest news is the LCCT in Penang, they're very much in the news nowadays.

Dear all,

(Tell you all first ah, This post actually not really related to our own business, however, it may help us to brain-storm something... perhaps)

Personally, I like AirAsia.

Why? because low cost is the trend! everyone wants low cost. At least 80% of among all population are low cost oriented. It's a huge pie!

Recently quite curious about its operation and been follow-up their reports and research closely. I found out in fact they are suffering lost during year 2008 due to crude oil contract (Don't laugh at me, I am slow)!

I have been thinking if they can come out with something that can overcome it's tight financial sure can buy it's share lo. 

Ok, Main topic here is,

Do you have any idea how to improve it's operation, finance, marketing? or any opinion, feeling towards AA?

This thread is just discussing anything related about AirAsia Core Business (Aircraft la, not hotel...  ) as the 3rd party of view.

By the way, Is there any other Low cost big pie that havent get explored by those by monopoly/oligopoly ah? (Maybe I am dreaming) But if yes, tell me wo, Maybe we can come out with something really.... awesome.... (Obama said: "Yes, we can!") 

No investors in aviation industry makes real money in the past 10 years. Low-cost carrier is the only model that may make money. Air-asia continues to bank on passenger volume by expanding its geographical reach. In the next few years, Airasia will continue putting back wahtever profit it makes to capital expenditure. Its borrowing is high too. MAS is definitely a heavily-subsidized national champion working on unsustainable model, thanks to low-cost model that has shaken the industry, which will continue in turmoil due to its vulnerability to oil price. My take is: avoid even Airasia and only buy it when it dips.

hey guys, what is airasia's customer service number? I got a problem booking tickets online. ;(