Perhaps a short history lesson on MAS will put this in perspective. From its inception in the 70s to the late 80s, MAS was chugging along fine albeit with some inevitable small time corrupt practices where thousand or hundreds of thousand were filtered off. However from the early 90s, corruption went big time where millions were siphoned off culminating with this TR fella virtually ripping off MAS wholesale.
With saw huat lye and then tan sri aziz, MAS created a small niche market offering the " malaysian experience " to discerning air travellers. In the mid 80's when the snake charmer keralite black magician toon kutty established his hold over the malaysian psyche, MAS began to feel the pressure from the government. Some B737 VIP planes were procured to enable the PM charters whereby the PM dept hardly ever pay for the services. Then came the 1987 umno elections which the toon kutty " magically" won and in the ensuing political fiasco, tengku razaleigh left to form semangat 46. With his kelantanese background tan sri aziz threw his lot behind ku li and that spelled the end of his tenure in MAS.
In came a snaky guy called dato kamaruddin who allowed the directors and their umno patrons to set up shell companies that siphoned millions out of the coffers. This dato kamaruddin was a frequent golf kaki of the pariah g string and it was at this time when this reptilian MAPA president signed of the f/os' first class privilege travel, encouraged wanton bypass in pilot promotion in cohoots with Rat in management and tried establishing his " audit " empire in flight operations. The company lost millions with the shell companies digging into its kitty and the pilots were screwed big time by the pariah's dalliance with his strange bedfellows in the management.
The damage done in flight operations allowed the camel to collect enough ammunitions to stage a " coup " when TR was " invited " to buy over MAS in 1995. With the unreparable damage done by the camel, dr con was roped in to stem in the rot but the rot continued right into the pigmy's regime. The rot remains...........
TR connived with the dime and toon kutty to relieve himself of the rotting company in 2001 and I think the rest is fairly recent in memory.