AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes today dismissed rumours of him possibly taking up stakes in Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) and Malaysia Airlines.

“I want to make my life more simple. That is why I have given up Formula One (F1) and I only have football.

“I do not want to own airports and I do not want to own other airlines. I just want AirAsia,” he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today after the launch of AirAsia’s low-cost courier service, Redbox.

Fernandes, who also owns the Queens Park Rangers Football Club, announced last month that he had sold the Caterham F1 team to a consortium of Swiss and Arab businessmen.

Meanwhile, Fernandes said he hoped to work with MAHB to develop new routes to improve passenger traffic into the country.

He was optimistic that the AirAsia-MAHB relationship would improve given that there had been more communication between the two parties.

- Bernama