The CEO of Malaysia Airlines, Captain Izham Ismail, went from selling snacks as a child to running a fleet of airplanes
Not too many CEOs admit to filling up their stomachs with water at school to stave off hunger pains, but then again Datuk Captain Izham Ismail is not a typical boss.
Yet despite coming from such a modest background, Ismail went on to become a pilot and then run Malaysia Airlines, one of the world's oldest carriers. He became one of just seven who made it through to the interview stage, which required borrowing shoes and trousers from a family friend, to become a cadet pilot with Philippine Airlines. Ismail was one of only two accepted in that intake. He opted to take up the offer rather than go to the UK, mainly because it allowed him to remain much closer to his family, and took just two years – far quicker than a degree course.
In 2010 he stopped flying altogether – but not before setting world records for the longest flight and fastest round-the-world flight by a commercial airliner, with a total flight time of 41 hours 59 minutes over a distance of 23,310 miles in Malaysia's first Boeing 777-200.
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