AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes has revealed how the airline narrowly avoided a major operational meltdown after receiving an extraordinary late-night warning from Airbus about a technical fault that threatened to ground thousands of jets worldwide.
Fernandes shared the dramatic behind-the-scenes account in a long post on social media on Monday morning, detailing how a phone call at 10 pm Wednesday night last week triggered a 25-hour emergency operation that saw engineers scramble to save the airline's fleet from potential mass grounding.
