He bought an airline for $0.25... and won. 🤯

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]What kind of idiot buys an airline for 25 cents and inherits $11 million [music] in debt? In 2001, Tony Fernandes did exactly that and accidentally changed air travel in Asia forever. Before AirAsia, flying in Southeast Asia was only for the rich. Malaysia Airlines charged [music] $200 from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok. Only businessmen and tourists could afford it. Fernandez had a crazy idea. Copy Southwest Airlines, no free meals, no assigned [music] seats, flight attendants sell instant noodles mid-flight, planes turn around in 25 minutes. Every second on the ground costs money, but it worked.

[00:00:33]Millions of Malaysians, Indonesians, and Thais >> [music] >> flew for the first time, meet with families, students studied abroad. This guy democratized the day AirAsia operates 200 plus planes across Asia.

[00:00:44]Now [music] this turned a bankrupt airline into billion dollar empire, regional mobility for the people who never imagined leaving [music] the country. Only because one guy believes that the poor deserve to fly.