AirAsia Celebrates 1st ‘ASEAN’ Graduation
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AirAsia, the world’s best low cost airline held its first ever Asean Crew Complement Graduation ceremony at AirAsia Academy’s multi-purpose hall here today, which saw 68 trainees proudly graduating as the first group of ‘Asean’ flight attendants. AirAsia Deputy Group CEO Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun presented the certificates of graduation.
This graduation ceremony marked a historical moment for the airline, where for the first time it presented the first batch of an all-Asean flight attendant graduates. This has been a long awaited dream for AirAsia, in line with its effort be recognized as an Asean airline.
Of the 68 graduating flight attendants, 27 were Malaysians, 22 Thais, 14 Myanmarese, 3 Indonesians and 2 Singaporeans.
Dato’ Kamarudin in his speech said, “While other airlines are cutting capacity and retrenching staff, AirAsia continues to grow and keeps on hiring. It is indeed our dream to have an all-Asean crew flying on one same flight. As an Asean airline, an all-Asean crew is very important as it reflects our passion in projecting the beautiful image of Asean to the world.
“It will also provide a good opportunity for the flight attendants to know more about other cultures, which in turn make them more hospitable to our guests and be sensitive to the needs of different people with different cultural backgrounds. We believe that each and every one of our guests is unique, hence such quality in our FAs will ensure the delivery of superior services and greatest flying experience,” he concludes.
AirAsia Academy instills the best discipline and passion into its trainees. Even during initial selection process, AirAsia recruiters look for individuals who have a lot of passion in the job and of course those who are proud to be associated with the world’s best low cost airline.
The ceremony also celebrated the graduation of 29 Guest Services trainees (from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) and 22 Ramp Agent trainees (Malaysia).
Emphasis on human capital is central to AirAsia’s philosophy, and has been its winning formula. AirAsia was recently named the world’s best low cost airline through a poll of 16 million air passengers by Skytrax. AirAsia also received the A320 Family Operational Excellence Award from Airbus in recognition of its service record with the single aisle aircraft type.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 05-May-09
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