of airasia’s tony fernandes: "scoot has a really dumb name for a start”

AirAsia's Tony Fernandes calls Scoot "a really dumb name for a start". Scoot is Singapore Airlines' low-cost long haul carrier.

He made this comment in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.



When asked what AirAsia would do with all the money raised from the IPOs for the Thai and Indonesian units of AirAsia, Mr. Fernandes joked that he would “buy Singapore Airlines".

They’re (Singapore Airlines) confused puppies… they should be available for sale anytime soon.

This is not the first time he poked fun at Singapore Airlines (SIA). When plans for Scoot were announced by Singapore Airlines, the AirAsia boss tweeted

Singapore Airlines to set up a long haul low cost carrier. Hahahaha. Déjà vu.

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