‘I do not report to my father, my independence is very clear’

STARBIZWEEK: Is it nepotism that your father, Tan Sri Asmat Kamaludin, is a director of the AirAsia group and you are CEO of a unit within the group?

Riad Asmat: No. He is a director of AirAsia X Bhd, and I am at AirAsia Malaysia. They are two different units although under the same group. In fact, he did not even know I was getting the job a day before the announcement. My parents were upset because I did not tell them then, but they are okay now.