Public air Asia, founded in 1993, the initial Air Asia, founded by the State enterprises (DRB-Hicom) of the Government of Malaysia and the commenced operation on November 18 1996.
After the operation was experiencing heavy losses and has a lot of debts. On December 2 2001 tune group of companies air Executive Tony Fernandes is a popular domain has come to buy the debt of the airline Air Asia, and has a best managed by a new airline routes launched.