An outspoken airline chief combined a massage and a meeting—then posted a shirtless …

Tony Fernandes, the outspoken boss of Malaysian budget airline AirAsia, is known for his bold moves. But his latest comment may have been a little too bold—and revealing.In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Fernandes posted a photo of himself shirtless and receiving a massage in a meeting room. “Got to love Indonesia and AirAsia culture that I can have a massage and do a management meeting,” he wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. Fernandes wrote that he was having a “stressful week,” and that the massage was a suggestion from an employee.Fernandes is the CEO of Capital A, a holding company which owns AirAsia.Responding to a request for comment from Bloomberg, Fernandes said he “didn’t mean to offend anyone“ with his post. “You can never really explain the thought process behind a post, so I deleted it,” he continued.Larger than lifeFernandes bought AirAsia, then heavily in debt, for less than a dollar in 2001. The airline rebranded itself as a “low fares, no frills” carrier, and soon became a leading budget airline in Southeast Asia.The Malaysian businessman has long been a larger-than-life character, with commentators at times comparing him to his former boss Richard Branson, the British
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