{"id":335939,"date":"2020-02-05T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335939"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:06:56","slug":"airasias-deals-with-airbus-in-focus-as-ceo-tony-fernandes-steps-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasias-deals-with-airbus-in-focus-as-ceo-tony-fernandes-steps-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia&#8217;s deals with Airbus in focus as CEO Tony Fernandes steps aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE and AirAsia, the discount airline built by Tony Fernandes, were inseparable for years, with the boisterous aviation executive gorging on ever-larger aircraft orders to become the manufacturer\u2019s biggest customer for single-aisle jets. <\/p>\n<p>That happy marriage ended in acrimony last week after Airbus admitted to illegally trying to sway plane sales and agreed to a record $4 billion bribery settlement. By Monday, Fernandes stepped away from the Malaysian airline he bought in 2001 and turned into one of the best-known brands in Asian aviation. <\/p>\n<p>Fernandes was one of Airbus\u2019s most loyal customers, a fixture at air shows where he\u2019d make a splash with huge deals while bucking the stodgy formalities of traditional business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE and AirAsia, the discount airline built by Tony Fernandes, were inseparable for years, with the boisterous aviation executive gorging on ever-larger aircraft orders to become the manufacturer\u2019s biggest customer for single-aisle jets. That happy marriage ended in acrimony last week after Airbus admitted to illegally trying to sway plane sales and agreed to a record $4 billion bribery settlement. By Monday, Fernandes stepped away from the Malaysian airline he bought in 2001 and turned into one of the best-known brands in Asian aviation. Fernandes was one of Airbus\u2019s most loyal customers, a fixture at air shows where he\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}