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Aiyah, macam gomnen dan politikus Malaysialah. Tipu all the way to the top and then give stirring speeches about helping the common man; mapa punya exco sama jugalah. Tipu all the way to the b744 and now see how the A380 fleet promotion comes about. History gonna repeat itself.
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Hi MAS guys, I used to enjoy some night stops in SIN with Capt. Zuraidi especially when his " adik " was around. Has he moved on to something higher up in the MAS management heirachy?
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he wasn't that pissed off at the bypass thingy ( he kind of expected those fellas to do it, so he said ). he was more concerned about the future of bolehland
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His argument to the DCA inspector, my captain had used real Jeppesen charts for the " approach briefing " and " primary reference ". The hand drawn chart was only an " aid de memoire ". So the DCA inspector accepted the pass after a lengthy argument. I was indeed very grateful that the " cinapek " stood his ground eventhough THAT WAS HIS own TRE CHECK SIMULATOR SESSION! Thinking back it was amazing but at that point I was mighty glad it was all over and we passed. I was sure my captain must had been very relieved; however he never really show anything.
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Zuraidi, nice guy and joy to fly with. DFO material, I don't quite think so. Heard that he was safety chief pilot for some time. Must have earned his stripes then but I personally think he is a joyful line chap.
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Some people opined that zuraidi is a lame duck and the top echelons asked for him to walk.
" Ba' Am " is seen to have more concrete ideas. The other high flyer nicki whoselan has stumbled with CBT over his head. So " Ba' Am " is the shoo in. Remember someone did say that way back in the 90's RAT and Dr Con had been asked to " protect " those 2 individuals.
" Ba' Am " is seen to have more concrete ideas. The other high flyer nicki whoselan has stumbled with CBT over his head. So " Ba' Am " is the shoo in. Remember someone did say that way back in the 90's RAT and Dr Con had been asked to " protect " those 2 individuals.
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Some people opined that zuraidi is a lame duck and the top echelons asked for him to walk
Lame duck or not, MAS is certainly going about with a limp. Here ia an article from The Star :
By P Gunasegaram, The Star
ALL is not well with Malaysia Airlines (MAS) (see our cover story this week). While the situation is dire, it is not impossible for the airline to recover its fortunes but it needs some nifty strategic changes and deft execution.
While key officials say they want the airline to be Asia’s top one by 2015, they don’t say clearly in terms of what. MAS is already among the best in the world in terms of service but that does not spell profit with the airline slipping into an operating loss of RM267mil for the first quarter of this year.
This airline has been through tough times, slipping into massive losses at several points during its history. With help it has come back from the brink of failure but it has not been able to show the kind of sustained profitability that other airlines such as Singapore Airlines have exhibited.
MAS’ fortunes have deteriorated so much that low-cost carrier AirAsia overtook it in terms of market value earlier this year (see chart) and seems set to widen its lead as it made a profit in the latest quarter while MAS reported a substantial loss.
MAS has a good product going by the continuing rave reviews for its cabin services. That alone is not enough to make it profitable. As with any business, you arrive at a profit or loss after subtracting costs from revenue.
For an airline, the revenue is dependent on capacity and how much it grows or reduces its routes, the load factor which is a measure of capacity utilisation, and the crucial pricing through which you maximise revenues.
This is to be juxtaposed with costs, of which the major and most volatile one is oil prices on which the jet fuel price depends. Sometimes, your cost savings justify a cutback in routes but a prudent airline will also consider the long-term impact of such a move because you don’t want to constrain future growth.
Because airlines are so dependent on oil costs, they try to hedge their positions to cap their costs but when wrongly or improperly done, this can wipe out airlines.
In fact in 2009 MAS had to provide a massive RM3.95bil in provisions for it’s hedging which nearly oblitereated its shareholders’ funds, requiring it to ask an exemption from de-listing procedures under Bursa Malaysia’s Practice Note 17.
In that episode, MAS had hedged at an oil price of US$100 per barrel but what it failed to do was to structure the hedge so as to benefit fully from any fall in the oil price below US$100. Paradoxically, as the oil price collapsed, MAS’ profits collapsed too.
For the subsequent quarters, MAS made enormous profits because the oil price rose again, reversing some of the earlier provisions but there were massive operational losses nevertheless.
For the latest quarter, MAS again blames rising oil prices for the losses but there is no explanation as to how many other airlines still manage to make profits, albeit at lower levels.
One has to suspect that this lies in revenue management. Perhaps it does not have enough business class or first class seats. Perhaps it has got its pricing wrong and is cannibalising some of its own market via cheap offerings and through its low-cost airline, Firefly. Perhaps it has given up too many routes to be able to grow rapidly.
Perhaps, MAS has become so obsessed with cutting fares and offering value comparable to low-cost airlines that it is losing its own high yielding market by people who book earlier to take advantage of lower fares.
Perhaps the airline is not very clear about where it should stand in terms of the kind of strategy it must adopt to maximise its revenue. You don’t leverage great service by offering value (read low-cost) fares. In fact you do the exact opposite.
Yes, one must agree that new airplanes are more cost efficient and that could make the difference between profit and loss, but does that imply that MAS has been negligent in its fleet planning?
In terms of broad strategy, MAS should just focus on being an excellent full-service carrier, market it as such and leave low-cost operations to subsidiary Firefly. It should get the best people and systems to manage its fleet and price its fares.
It should focus on continued cost reduction in other areas without seriously undermining its service standards, its promotional efforts and its brand reputation and positioning.
And it should engage in prudent hedging policies which allow it to take advantage of falling oil prices instead of being locked into high-cost oil when the price of oil is falling.
Once it has sorted all this out and is back on the firm path of profit, then it can talk about being Asia’s number one airline in every respect, not just service.
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Some forces aligned with powers that be will probably get MAS into such a bad shape that it will be offered for RM 1; then some " bright apark " ala TF will buy it and turn it into a phenomenal mega carrier. Dare I dream ?
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Hi ,well in short as a commuting contract pilot with my wife and family traveling with me to KK quite alot ,we are surprised how old and untimely
there service and fleet is... its like stepping back in time. Guess what we fly and operate in Indonesia and MAS have the oldest planes in comparison, 4 x sectors
late, lost luggage, expensive seats, poor returns on req mileage . Hope it gets better or firefly will eat the fat cats own market, maybe they want the old out and new boys in?
there service and fleet is... its like stepping back in time. Guess what we fly and operate in Indonesia and MAS have the oldest planes in comparison, 4 x sectors
late, lost luggage, expensive seats, poor returns on req mileage . Hope it gets better or firefly will eat the fat cats own market, maybe they want the old out and new boys in?
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Tall tale
However this so called " cinapek " countermanded the DCA inspector and passed my captain and me! His argument to the DCA inspector, my captain had used real Jeppesen charts for the " approach briefing " and " primary reference ". The hand drawn chart was only an " aid de memoire ". So the DCA inspector accepted the pass after a lengthy argument. I was indeed very grateful that the " cinapek " stood his ground eventhough THAT WAS HIS own TRE CHECK SIMULATOR SESSION! Thinking back it was amazing but at that point I was mighty glad it was all over and we passed. I was sure my captain must had been very relieved; however he never really show anything.
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Bunga,
I was privy to the incident as I was slotted for the base check right after this. There was some commotion but eventually settled as hassan described. However, hassan's case was the SECOND of this nature as far as I know. There was an earlier instance that new TRE did not comply with the DCA examiner's " hint " that the examinee be failed and it was accepted by all as it was only a " hint ". The second case was more heated as it was almost a directive by the DCA guy to fail that particular examinee but it ended OK because somewhere in the regulations, it was stated that the actual TRE conducting the base check call the shots about passing or failing the candidates.. The DCA examiner could only observe the proceedings; he could of course fail the TRE and remove him but I think cool heads prevailed at the debriefing and all went well.
I was privy to the incident as I was slotted for the base check right after this. There was some commotion but eventually settled as hassan described. However, hassan's case was the SECOND of this nature as far as I know. There was an earlier instance that new TRE did not comply with the DCA examiner's " hint " that the examinee be failed and it was accepted by all as it was only a " hint ". The second case was more heated as it was almost a directive by the DCA guy to fail that particular examinee but it ended OK because somewhere in the regulations, it was stated that the actual TRE conducting the base check call the shots about passing or failing the candidates.. The DCA examiner could only observe the proceedings; he could of course fail the TRE and remove him but I think cool heads prevailed at the debriefing and all went well.
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I don't tell tall tales bunga; this did happened and after checking it was indeed the second time that such an incident occurred.
Salah, it was not hamidi....I was told hamidi was in the first incident. Niether Capt. Razali nor Capt Syed Zainal was involved in my case. Enough said as we have a bigot here bound on stirring up ****. Somehow these two cases were sensitive issues and the people involved would like to keep things low key.
Salah, it was not hamidi....I was told hamidi was in the first incident. Niether Capt. Razali nor Capt Syed Zainal was involved in my case. Enough said as we have a bigot here bound on stirring up ****. Somehow these two cases were sensitive issues and the people involved would like to keep things low key.
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Sorry, same ****, same lacklustre bungling and same wallowing in self pity. That's MAS as AK make tracks for greater share of the market. The writing is on the wall folks.
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Bersihkan Operasi MAS
Do we need a " bersih " campaign to clean up MAS ops? The rot that is the definition of Malaysia is mirrored 100% in MAS.
Maybe it's time for TF to get ambitious and swallow up this aging, sickly mess of a MAS!
Maybe it's time for TF to get ambitious and swallow up this aging, sickly mess of a MAS!
