WEE CHOO KEONG
I am surprised that so many clever people cannot under stand simple arithmetic.
The current state of affairs of MAS has been caused by :
(i) Some 15 years ago MAS management was massed up and the
very fabric of its operation was destroyed and until now it has not been
fully revived despite efforts being made to revive it.
(ii) The situation has been compounded by the wrong
decisions of the government to allow Air Asia to operate on domestic
and regional routes in the beginning and later on long haul routes
without any proper study on the impact.
(iii) The authorities failed to appreciate the role and
responsibilities of a National Carrier and wrongly placed MAS to compete
against a private low cost carrier. It should be noted that it was
wrong to convert Air-Asia’s license from international routes not
operated by MAS into domestic routes without any study on the impact.
(iv) Those concerned have failed to appreciate that
Malaysia’s air transport premier travel market is very small and that
the market is very ‘price sensitive.
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