Fernandes proposes a single listed Asean holding firm for AirAsia

We are urging Asean Governments to relax ownership restrictions and consider Asean investors as equivalent to local investors,

PETALING JAYA: AirAsia Bhd’s founder Tan Sri Tony Fernandes says he wants to combine the group’s separate units in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines under a single listed Asean holding company.

“We are urging Asean Governments to relax ownership restrictions and consider Asean investors as equivalent to local investors,” said Fernandes, who is also the low-cost airline’s group chief executive officer, in a filing with Bursa Malaysia yesterday.