The Height of Madness

Shing Huei Peh

Chapter 11 in Strictly Business:The Kwek Leng Beng Story, 2023, pp 113-121 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: When teenager Anne Klein boarded a flight at Shannon Airport in Ireland, little did she know she would be on a bizarre journey which would eventually end with the Irish national carrier selling one of its biggest assets. The trip had started fairly innocuously in 1995. The 18-year-old checked in for a short flight to Manchester in neighbouring England, but the ground staff of Aer Lingus directed her to a flight to Minsk in Belarus instead. When the cabin crew of the Minsk-bound aircraft discovered they had one too many passengers, they alerted the captain but he chose to continue the flight…

Keywords: Kwek Leng Beng; Hong Leong Group; Hong Leong; Singapore; Millennium Hotel; Millenium Hotel; 9/11; The Plaza; authorised biography; CDL; City Development Ltd; Donald Trump (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 L21 L26 L85 M1 M13 M16 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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