Photo Caption: Colin Currie, President (Commercial) Capital A, accepting the 'Outstanding Achievement' award of the FTE Airline Transformation Power List Asia-Pacific 2022 at FTE APEX Asia Expo in Singapore

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 November 2022 - AirAsia has received the 'Outstanding Achievement' award at the FTE Airline Transformation Power List Asia-Pacific 2022 for embracing innovation to recover and thrive following the wide-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The fast growing travel and lifestyle platform which also owns an airline, has been once again recognised  for fast tracking its digital transformation with the mission of pivoting from being primarily an airline into an all-in-one digital company with close to 20 travel and lifestyle products and services creating the “airasia way of life”.

The award, presented at the FTE APEX Asia Expo in Singapore, champions AirAsia from a group of 10 finalists that included airlines from all around the world, including Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, and Korean Air.

Colin Currie, President (Commercial) of Capital A said, “We are honoured to receive this recognition, another  strong vote of confidence to support our pivot into a one-stop travel and lifestyle platform. We are particularly more attentive in ensuring our customers’ experience post-pandemic will continue to  be more secure, hygienic, contactless and seamless than ever by improving our digital capabilities which reduce costs and further enhance the customer journey. At the same time, we will  uniquely support the other products that we’ve created during the downtime in flying – the airasia Super App, fintech BigPay and our logistic business Teleport.

“We would like to thank everyone for supporting us – especially to our valuable guests and Allstars who have been exemplary in displaying an unwavering spirit throughout difficult times. We will take this as an opportunity for us to put an even stronger commitment in becoming the most communicative, proactive and answerable brand to our customers, on top of more exceptional and personalised services driven by big data and digital innovation.”

Daniel Coleman, Founder & CEO, Future Travel Experience, commented: “Colin is clearly a superstar signing for Capital A and our judging panel was very quick to choose him for ‘Outstanding Achievement’ recognition in the FTE Airline Transformation Power List Asia-Pacific 2022. Arguably no airline group has used the downtime created by the pandemic better to fast-track digital transformation efforts, but the pivot from being primarily an airline into an all-in-one digital company with close to 20 travel and lifestyle products and services is truly unique and a trailblazing industry effort, which I am sure will inspire many others across the sector on how they take their businesses forward.”

FTE APEX Asia Expo 2022 is Asia’s biggest free-to-attend passenger experience and business performance expo. It provides an unrivalled platform for the industry’s most innovative solution and service providers from across Asia-Pacific and further afield to showcase their latest products and concepts designed to help airlines and airports improve end-to-end customer experiences, reduce costs, increase revenues and enhance sustainability & operational efficiency.

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About Capital A

Capital A (formerly known as AirAsia Group) is an investment holding company with a portfolio of synergistic travel and lifestyle businesses that leverage data and technology, including airasia Super App, fintech BigPay and Teleport as a logistic hub in ASEAN. Capital A’s vision is to create and deliver products and services that focus on offering the best value at the lowest cost, underpinned by robust data accumulated over 20 years in operation and one of Asia's leading brands that remains committed to serving the underserved.