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AirAsia plans to raise capital for digital arm

AirAsia to raise capital to fund AirAsia Digital, the rebranded digital venture arm of the airline group

Updated 6 years ago · Published on 24 Sep 2020 3:00PM

AirAsia plans to raise capital for digital arm
AirAsia aircraft are seen parked on the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 in Sepang on April 29. – AFP pic, September 24, 2020


KUALA LUMPUR – Low cost airline AirAsia Group is looking at all possible options to raise capital to fund the group's newly rebranded digital venture arm, AirAsia Digital, according to group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes.

Without disclosing the amount of the capital, he indicated that the airline group would not need to be huge to make the whole digital journey a successful venture.

"It could be convertible debt or equity. We've just started on the process.

"We built all of these (referring to AirAsia's digital initiatives) on our very own capital so far, just like how we built AirAsia," he told a media briefing on AirAsia Digital here today. – Bernama, September 24, 2020

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