Tony Fernandes, the CEO of the Malaysian budget airline AirAsia.
Tony Fernandes is CEO AirAsia.
  • Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia, said his flights were all full so he had to use a rival carrier.
  • Users on Instagram are divided between praising the move and expressing disbelief.
  • Fernandes went viral after posting a shirtless picture of himself getting a massage at work.

You might think flying on a rival carrier wouldn't be something for an airline CEO to crow about on social media. That's not how Tony Fernandes thinks.

The AirAsia boss says he had to travel on Singapore Airlines because his own planes were sold out.

"No seat on @flyairasia for three flights so had to take @singaporeair. Hehehe," wrote Fernandes in an Instagram post published on Wednesday.