Bravo to AirAsia Airlines and the US Embassy in Malaysia for supporting trainings at Air Asia’s four largest bases at the four largest crew bases for Air Asia of Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta and Bangkok. The whole team including Nancy Rivard, former AA flight attendant and President of Airline Ambassadors, Andrea Hobart, Alaska Airlines flight attendant and director of AAI’s Training program, and Donna Hubbard, AA flight attendant and survivor of human trafficking felt Air Asia’s support was GROUNDBREAKING and were inspired with this airline, run like a family with a deep commitment to one another, the communities they serve and corporate social responsibility.
See video message Air Asia is sharing with all employees
Air Asia plans to train all employees and is doing a spread also in their in-flight magazine. In flight magazine story on the visit and media clips from the trip at links below:
Airlines Fight Against Human Trafficking
Asia’s Biggest Budget Airline Trains Crew to Recognize Human Traffickers
June 7,2017
I’m pleased to inform you that the US Embassy has approved our grant application so it’s on! We will receive the funds later this month. Are you available for a Skype call for us to discuss some preparations? per our discussion several weeks ago, we would like to invite an Airline Ambassador’s team to AirAsia for a meet a share session with our cabin crew members. This would be conducted at our four main hubs – Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila. We believe this is an important part of getting crew involved in the programme as the sharing will be peer to peer sharing rather than from management. We are kicking off our Anti-Trafficking Initiative next week with a series of meetings and module development trainings.
Since the 2026 TIP Report rates Malaysia and Thailand at Tier 3 – this effort can have a significant effect on crew awareness and we look forward to inspiring our c0lleagues at Air Asia.
Our international team will include Nancy Rivard, Donna Hubbard and Andrea Hobart.
