Up so early? Stop fretting over the divestment of AAC. AirAsia has much much more going for her than that. In sny case, there are at least 2 super salesmen in AirAsia who can sell ice to eskimos, so have faith thst AAC will be sold gainfully. It is a good asset so no need to give it away.

Exactly, valuelurker.

Bought more today at 3.14 and 3.15. Great.

We live in an uncertain world. Sometimes things run nicely like clockwork but sometimes they don't sail so smoothly. Sometimes, other countries' policies change beyond our control and impact what we do or our plans, so we roll with the blows and accommodate accordingly as long as the essence of what we do remain intact. It may take some more time but it is not necessarily daunting or impossible to come up with solutions.

For me, AirAsia, as it is and without a pending sale of subsidiary AAC and the anticipated related special dividend, is currently undervalued.

Tony already fully paid and picked up all his 559m pp in February.

Plane passenger load of AAX Gold Coast-KL flight that was diverted to Brisbane airport was 345/365 or nearly 95% full. Very good business.

The chart seems to suggest a price breakout in the offing. Hmm ... fits a scenario in which a wonderful news will be announced sometime next week to mid July. Hahaha.

Ya, BJCorp normally does that but nothing is set unless there is a formal announcement and subsequent confirmation after shareholders' approval at the AGM.

At this juncture of time, it only means that the board has not deliberated or decided on the matter. It may appear certain to you but not necessarily to others. Many companies do not practice proposing a dividend at the same time as announcement of their 4Q results. How come the spaces for preceding year's dividend figures have been left empty. a careless omission or simply not an important issue at this juncture?

Don't worry prematurely about the dividend. BJCorp usually announce its annual dividend a few months after the 4Q financials announcement. One cent per share expected as usual for FY17

Last few years dividend announcement dates;
26.08.2016
29.09.2015
03.10.2014
07.10.2013
05.10.2012

The steady composure of the passengers as seen in the videos is a testament to how well the captain was handling the crisis situation. A picture of calm.

The A330 was filled with 359 passengers (maximum 365), pretty full so business must be good.

AA owns less than 14% of AAX.

I am sure that warranties given by RR and insurances procured by AAX will cover all the costs of investigations, repairs, parts replacements, loss of revenue and any other losses arising out of this recent event.

Commendable handling by air crew and airline during and after technical episode. Excellent!

If that fails, maybe you can ask for a rules waiver and authorisation to use up to the credit that should be available in your account had this AA divvy been credited today. Afterall, the credit is already in their account and it is more business for them too.

Talk nicely to the person in charge and tell him/her that you can't wait to use the proceeds to buy a fantastic share today. Maybe they will speed up the process and free your trapped divvy. All the paperwork should have been done prior to this day and the transfer should have been executed the moment they are aware that all the dividends are in because it only takes a few moments to match the total amounts expected to be received and redistributed.

Mine is Standard Chartered. It's in.

RM, it should be credited into your nominated bank account sometime today meaning you eill definitely see it after 12 midnight tonight after their daily maintenance/update. If your shares are in margin accounts, you need to wait for a few more days to allow your margin financier time to check and process the transder from their accounts to yours.

Rolling the money right back into more AA shares at these cheap levels.

Fat dividend cash from AA coming into our bank accounts tomorrow. This is only the appetiser with the main course coming close behind.

Some funds and people may be feeling uneasy about the flash points in Syria where cavalier behaviour prevails as the USA engages Russia in a dangerous game of brinkmanship. A small conflict could be one test too many and erupt into a full scale war.

If prices should move downwards irrationally in the near future, Tony and his angel merchant banker should seriously consider the privatisation options this time and along the way, destroy the butts of those short sellers crazy enough to mount predatory attacks on AA. The rewards that can be reaped from from such an exercise are hugh because Tony can then cream off the multi-billion $ gains from all the assets sales which are not priced in by the market. Of course he is not a nasty fellow and will also reward the last loyal supporters who will hang on till the end by paying them a decent price like 4.50 ps.

Later when Tony relists AA again, we shall be back for the ride up again. Ananda has done this thingi twice already and nobody is complaining.

Payment date of 5.2c Div is today 15th June.

Not all but a lot of dismayed investors were not mincing their words when they voiced out their feelings and concerns at the sharp drop in AA's share price when hordes of shortists attacked concertedly with impunity. TF&KM had no immediate answer to the onslaught having reduced their core holding to below 19% and seemingly, all the chips were down when some of their pledged shares appeared to have been forced sold.

I saw hng33 bought in at 34.5c on 29th May and sold later at 35.5c on 8th June. There is no doubt he profited from this trade by approx 0.4 to 0.5c per share depending on his brokerage fees.

Whose idea is it, this female pilots' new unifiom?

Not to my taste.

1200 × 4.28 ÷ 3342 = 1.5368

80% of 1200 × 4.28 ÷ 3342 = 1.2294

1000 × 4.28 ÷ 3342 = 1.2807

80% of 1000 × 4.28 ÷ 3342 = 1.0245

Any which way you cut it, it will be brilliant.

mancingbursa, technologically speaking, we are not even up to the Buck Roger's era yet. What more to say of Captain James Tiberius Kirk's era where people jump across vast spaces in the universe by travelling through hyperspace or wormholes between locations? Your concerns are 1 or 2 thousand years ahead of our time by Michio Kaku's reckoning. We are only a Type Zero civilization who may never make it to Type 1 level because we may be the cause of our own extinction.

Refreshing to digress sometimes.

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/this-mind-bending-scale-predicts-the-power-of-advanced-civilizations

http://fifthperson.com/about/

valuegrowth, Rusmin Ang is one of the two founders of The Fifth Person, a Singapore based company involved in equity investing and on-line investment services. The 4 year old company consists of 5 young analysts including the 2 founders.

So no, I think Rusmin is not going to join AirAsia anytime soon and he is not the vocal shareholder who impressed TF at the AGM with his lines of questioning.

This will refresh your memory of some of the good things about AirAsia that may have escaped from your mind ... http://fifthperson.com/21-things-i-learned-from-airasias-2017-agm/

You are not alone. Stay focused and undeterred by distractions along the way. Invest confidently taking care not to overstretch your resources so that you can stay the course resolutely to the end for a handsome reward.

There is no indication given when the successful bidder for AAC will be named. We are told the sale will be completed before the year end and indeed, very probably much earlier than that.

That means an announcement can be expected anytime from now.

I have been here since August 2015, one day before the price hit 76.5c. I shall be around for a long time yet. Why, the action has not even started yet or tell me what I had missed.

I did not sell a single share this round.

What is going to happen tomorrow is anybody's guess.

For the investor, nothing big is going to happen. For the seasoned stockist/trader, he may short some if the price moves up enough or long some if it moves down enough. For the valiant contrarian retailer, he will continue striving to buy low sell high, buy at any price to sell higher or cut loss until surrender or incapacity.

Definition of gap up and gap down ...

"A gap is a break between prices on a chart that occurs when the price of a stock makes a sharp move up or down with no trading occurring in between. Gaps can be created by factors such as regular buying or selling pressure, earnings announcements, a change in an analyst's outlook or any other type of news release."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gap.asp

I wonder if China Everbright group might want to take up a strategic stake of say 15% or more in AirAsia in the event the reported China ventures are realised. I also wonder if they might be the eventual buyers of AAC.

The shareholders list has been given a thorough scrub. The base spread should now have a larger group of hardened hardcore investors compared to before. It should have a group of rejuvenated old punters, traders and investors building new positions with new targets. It has also received a fresh infusion of new ardent shareholders looking for capital gains.

Based on future outlooks, maturing catalysts and renewed investors' zest, the momentum should build up to carry AA beyond 4.00 this year.

With due respect to Mohsin Aziz, his forecast of AA's 2017EPS is too conservative.

Give a little time for the TA metrics to unwind first after the last few days' misguided misadventure, then the upward march will resume. This afternoon looks likely.

I am aware of the liaison between AA and China Everbright Bank going back to the time when Tony was talking about privatising AA not long after the attacks by short sellers in the aftermath of the damning GMT Research report.

Now that the bank's mother, China Everbright Group, has turned up to become part of a tripartite group to develop a LCC airline and a LCC terminal based in Henan Province's capital, Zhengzhou, wouldn't that conjure up pictures of all sorts of different tie-up possibilities to the extent of even affecting earlier AA's plans?

In a scenario with AAC sale being aborted or put on the back burner, what is so terrible about it? It will remain in the BS and grow bigger until a fair day when the right suitor comes along. But I still believe that an imminent sale is near, given the willing seller and the prime quality of the asset.

3.06 now, high of 3.09 ... attaboy! AA investors, way to go!

How to read it ...

Plan for aa to be discussed today. Threefold good earning. Strong ancilliary income, good dividend and special dividend every two years.

Too wishful?

I say it's better to keep them as separate entities. They are different animals. Although both are LCCs, one is into short and the other long haul operations. The management and usage of planes and flight crews are quite different thus requiring you to wear different thinking hats. The 2 working models respond to changes in working environment conditions differently. Moreover, AAX is mulling over going full service which, should it need to happen, would be a complete transmutation.

I am not saying one outfit will forever be better than the other. I just like to be able to buy something more easily defined or less complex. Very likely, I would own shares in both counters but hold different expectations from them.

Currently still more bullish on AA but starting to like AAX now because of expected long term continuation of low jet fuel costs including even lower prices in future.

25% shares in China ventures is a bonanza already. Don't take too big a bite that you can't chew and swallow. Compare 25 to zero %, consider who holds the ground and money, and you will be most grateful.

Fecilitations, jubilation and celebration. China AirAsia akan datang.

LCCs are disrupting the full service airlines business but a boon to airports and world tourism. Lower Ringgit does help to bring more international travellers to Malaysia.

Low Ringgit effect drawing foreign tourists to Malaysia for cheap holidays.

It pays to keep your mind objective when surrounded by euphoria.

I am looking at EPS of 55.5c in FY17 with full disposal of AAC completed by end of 3Q17 and I expect AA to be re-rated at 8× PER before the year 2017 is over, and another re-rating to 10× PER in FY18 with EPS of 46.9c. I think prices are heading for the $4 and above territory.