In PART 1 we stopped at the sorry state of Rural Air Service (RAS) and Fly Asian Express Sdn Bhd (now AirAsia X) where six aircraft were grounded due to un-airworthiness and another one was cannibalised for spare parts, and how MAS was left to pickup the pieces thereafter.
AirAsia Bhd, which is in talks with Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAHB) on possible collaborations in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) is open to collaborate with the national carrier in other areas, said its group CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes. For full report please read HERE.
This early morning Firefly flight FY 1002 (codeshare with MAS flight MH 9948) bound for Kota Bharu from Penang had to do an air turn back due to faulty landing gear. Thank God, FY 1002 landed in Penang safely.
It took MAS 10 hours to hold a press conference to announce that MH 370 was missing.
The missing MH 370, which was flying to Beijing, lost contact with Air Traffic Control (ATC) at 2:40 am on 8-3-2014. The first press conference by the Group CEO of MAS, En Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (AJ) was at 12 noon on 8-3-2014.
Yours truly went to the same mamak stall for a teh tarik this noon and someone has just passed the e-mail entitled “Stay Focused In Our Journey” from MAS Group CEO, which is still warm from the oven.
En Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (AJ), the Group CEO of MAS and his top management have been bragging that MAS has managed to get more passengers to travel on MAS. Of course, the numbers game was the brainchild of AJ and his “Bollywood and Hollywood stars“. What is the point of gaining more passengers with no yield recorded except another loss of RM375 for the 3rd quarter of 2013 (July to September). Any person with modicum of intelligence could get the numbers over night if one just to embark on slashing of the fares with no other plans in hand.
On 8-8-2011 the MAS-AirAsia share swap was inked by Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, the MD of Khazanah, and Tan Sri Tony Fernandes of AirAsia. The the Advisor of the said share swap was none other than Dato’ Seri Nazir Razak of CIMB. On 6-9-2013 both MAS and AirAsia were fined RM10 million each for “collaborating to integrate some routes in which they had earlier competed” under the said share swap. Part 1 was about the inking of the said MAS -AirAsia share swap with the advice from Datuk Seri Nazir Razak / CIMB and Bain & Co, HERE and Part 2 was the chronology of events after the said share swap before the appointment of AJ as Group CEO of MAS, HERE.
AirAsia A320 and AirAsia X A330 aircrafts are a regular sight in MAS Hangar 5 in KLIA. It seems that Hangar 5 has been reserved exclusively for AirAsia and AirAsia X at the expense of MAS.
