KUALA LUMPUR -- "I thought COVID-19 was just going to be a passing cloud, but I was wrong," says Tony Fernandes.
The larger-than-life executive behind AirAsia, the Malaysian budget airline whose parent company now goes by the name Capital A, was in a reflective mood in a recent interview with Nikkei Asia. He confessed he'd assumed the coronavirus would pass as quickly as other health emergencies, like SARS or H1N1.
