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My guest on Business Daily today has worked in the music industry,

has owned a Formula One team, and spent a decade as the co-owner of a London football club,

one of the founding members of the English Premier League. I'm driven by passion. I love passion,

I love passionate people. And football fans are at the top of passion. Probably the

greatest day of my life, apart from my kids being born, was when we won the playoff. And suddenly

I'm at Wembley Stadium with 45,000 fans saying, you can't make that up. These days, he's concentrating on running a successful airline in his own, distinctive and

sometimes outspoken way.

I am impulsive.

I do go with what I feel.

I have this philosophy, though, that transparency and honesty is still the best policy, not

to hide behind press releases or

spokesman you know if you're honest people are going to respond in the right way he is

tony fernandez the co-founder of air asia the budget airline based in malaysia that has

transformed travel around the asian region in southeast Asia. I've been speaking to him about his

career, football, motor racing, the impact of COVID on the airline industry and the recent

safety issues at Boeing. But I started by asking him about his upbringing in Malaysia.

So did you come from an entrepreneurial business family? Well, I split in two, really. My father was

quite the opposite. He was a left-wing doctor who didn't believe in private bedson. And my mother was

a raving capitalist. So I'm slapped down the middle, actually. So you then came to England as a young boy and you went to boarding school.

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