Is MAS serious about joining Oneworld?

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  2. I was formally reprimanded by the Board for a lapse in process by my staff which resulted in benefit to none other than the Company. I still acepted the decision and left the Company soon after.

    I have also seen many dismissed or asked to resign for less minor offences. I myself have personally dismissed many for offences involving far less amounts.

    The sponsorship of QPR can onl be seen as a major breach in corporate governance. I believe MAS like many other companies has levels of approving authority. I do not beleive that a person in the Danny’s pay grade has to authority to sign a RM18M deal. If so no wonder MAS is in deep trouble, with poor oversight of investments. Given the haste with which it was done, I do not believe that Danny had the opportunity to consult, let alone obtain Board approval to sign the agreement. This is a serious infringement or lack of governance.

    The benefits to MAS of entering ino such a sponsorship was dubious in the first place and now that QPR is facing relegation, the skeptisism of the benefits has become reality. This is a major oversight. It can only be out of sheer incompetence or disregard. Previously, management staff have been dismissed if not transferred or have their wings clipped for such offences.

    MAS should:

    1. Show proof of Board approval for the agreement prior to the date of signing of the agreement or proof of a Board resolution increasing the approving authority limit of Danny to allow him to sign the agreement. If not show proof of Board ratification of the approval of the agreement.

    2. What actions have been taken by the Board on Danny for such infringement? If not show proof of what measures MAS has taken to prevent the probability of such occurance.

    I hope the minority shareholders would raise this question at the next Annual General Meeting or the Cabinet should pose this question at the next Cabinet meeting.

  3. Economist Kampong,

    I agree with you that given the financial circumstances of MAS, noone with any concience would have agreed to spend that amount of money in a scheme whose benefits are dubious.

    Prudence have made Companies in a similar financial difficulties, to axe their Advertising & Promotions budget as one of the first measures of cost cutting. If I am not mistaken on of the first thing Idris Jala did when he took the helm of MAS was to do exactly that.

    Doing the opposite can only be contemplated by the utter incompetents or unconscionables.

    Or is there something else at work here behind the scenes that is not evident to us. Could the sponsorship be part of the CCF or reward for TF?

    MAS has a lot of explaining to do. The shareholders deserve to know.

  4. ‘The full list of the steering committee team members are:’ – Where is the list of the members? YB, you have been highlighting these issues continuously over the past months and by the time if anyone decide to make corrective action, it may be TOO LATE.

    Economist Kampong is spot on – MAS is definitely CCF****ed!

  5. Rashdan is the main culprit in the share swap and CCF. But Azman Mokthar is no angel because he is the head of Khazanah. Both must be sacked. Rashdan must be immediately removed from MAS. He has no clue in the aviation industry. look at WAU how he and Azman have screwed up MAS.

    Sack Rashdan the good for nothing. Just a crony of Azman and the pariah.

  6. Rashdan is just another Panamera deadwood in MAS that was sent into MAS by Tan Sri Azman of Khazanah. He has no authority to spend the Rm100 million to sponsor QPR. Furthermore, how can he commit MAS to the RM100 million sponsorship money when MAS was breeding? Brainless idiot.

  7. Now only the crony Rashdan and Aj are begining to dream about Oneworld. If they are good for MAS, they would have taken the membership into Oneworld seriously in September last year. But Rashdan the crony was more interested in spending RM90 million to sponsor the pariah’s QPR only for home jersey. At the same time both are saying to Malaysians that MAS is bleeding and need to save money. how stupid can they be? They are not fit to be in MAS especially Rashdan a failure for his WAU exercise.

  8. What the hell is going on in MAS? If Oneworld provides so many benefits to MAS why was Rashdan and AJ not joining MAS last year? Rashdan was more preoccupied in how to help his good friend TF then to help MAS.

    Rashdan tak malu kah? Gaji buta aje di MAS. Ptui! to you Rashdan! Never mind about AJ he is just a budak suruhan taking instructions and also makan gaji buta.

  9. The stall in the One World initiative is nothing more than a sign of a lack of industry knowledge.

    It is going to be even harder to restart. It was already difficult for MH to get the invite in the first place. This stalling has caused the other partners of One World to review whether to still want MAS to be a member.

  10. YB… apa akan jadi kepada pekerja MAS? bahagian admin, HR & finance dipindahkan ke Sepang & yang lainnya akan diserapkan ke syarikat baru yg sebagai kontrak di mana keistimewaan dulu hilang dan union pun xde? bolehkah begitu sedangkan mereka rata-ratanya kakitangan tetap? Inilah strategi mereka utk buatkan staff berhenti & elak drpd memberi lai-off benefit. Saya tinggal di Subang. kenapa ada beberapa kali kapal terbang Air-Asia turub di SZB sedangkan Air Asia tidak ada penerbangan di sana? Saya dah confirm dengan bahagian hanger, xde pun servis kapal terbang Air Asia. Bagaimana pula dengan CCF, Air Asia ambil banyak laluan MAS & kononnya dlm CCF tu Air Asia akan hantar flightnya ke MAS(MAE) tapi tak ada pun? Semuanya Air Asia ambil. Jersi bola (QPR) kenapa yg MAS cuma satu (belang biru putih) sedangkan Air Asia sebanyak 2 jersi (merah putih dan oren) dah la ambil kaler Firefly pulak tu sampai 2 jersi berbanding MAS sehelai shj? 18m pound tu MAS shj yg bayar?? Air Asia ambil kesempatang betul…. Tolong siasat YB perkara2 nie… Air Asia & khazanah nie makin melampau!!!!

  11. He is the bloody crony of TF. The first thing Rashdan did before AJ came in was to spend RM90 million of MAS fund to sponsor QPR. Why? TF got share in QPR. Bloody Bina Tak Fikir idiot. Manusia yang tak mall dan tiada maruah. Rashdan, you and your family will be cursed for what you had done to MAS.

  12. Old man

    I agree with you. That idiot Rashdan and that Mr Blur, AJ, do not know anything about airline. They are stalling in the hope that Oneworld will finally tell MAS to go to hell then they will have a good reason to tell Malaysians that Oneworld rejected MAs and not MAS didn’t want to join. This is in their blank mind. Now Aj was telling MAS staff how great Oneworld is. Then is MAS waiting and still dreaming about it. Why MAS was so quick to sponsor QPR?

    Rashdan if your interest is in AirAsia please join AirAsia with your friend TF there. Then you can do what you want. Not in MAS. We will not leave you in peace. We will curse you and your family until you are f..ked like what Kamarul was stating in his comment. You will have no peace in MAS because we know who you are Rashdan. You are just a crony of AMOK and TF. Go and fly kite will be the best thing for you. mother f…ker!

  13. For 6 months ever since Rashdan and AJ (about 4 months) took over the top management of MAS and they have been sitting on the Oneworld and now only they are talking about it with no definite date of joining.

    What the f..k were Rashdan doing in MAS? just drawing fat salaries and joining the Panamera dead wood circuit?

    PM should step in and remove this Rashdan from MAS. He is the main culprit in screwing up MAS further. Just a brainless crony with beautiful degree with no self respect. MAS union should be taking actions against this crony before it is too late.

  14. Oh Rashdan, Rashdan, Rashdan: are you ashamed of yourself? Most probably not judging from what you have been doing in BianFikir under Maybank and now MAS. An idiot will be able to tell you that you shouldn’t have agreed to sponsor Tony,s QPR for Rm90 millions. You are just a bullshitter and of course, brainless graduate from Cambridge U.

  16. Everybody, no need to get excited about a mere RM18million (not RM90 million) sponsorship la, it’s nothing compared to so many other leakages
    happening in every corner. Has anyone any idea what the various CONsultants are costing MAS? They are even hired to report to AJ on the progress of how soon we can shut down stations (Capetown, Johanesburg etc). As an indicator on how ‘valuable’ the CONsultant’s roles are, after sitting in one of these meetings, she had the gall to say the meetings were “too operational” for her, so she will refrain from attending future meetings! All she wanted to know was – can the station be closed down by a certain date or not, just pass her the meeting minutes so that she can brief AJ (using nice PP slides I am sure) . Talk about borrowing our watches to tell us the time! Or the CONsultants who conducted workshops on ‘sustainability’, poor staff thought it was something to do with saving the ozone layer, only to find that they were cherry picking our brains to find out what a “premium airline” needs and how to be ‘profitable’! Or, how yet another CONsultant was hired by our incredible HC to study ‘feasibilty’ of introducing ‘flexi-benefits’ to staff. What’s that? simply put, if you do not use up a certain ‘benefit’ you can exchange it for points (like bouslink la) to get something else like handphones or books! Sounds good until you realise this is going to cost a lot of money to MAS (some ‘benefits’ like annual travel, if not utilised are forfeited, now they want to give you ‘points’ for it), and worse, the super-inefficient HC dept simply has no clue/capability to manage the scheme anyway. When this was pointed out, HC said, we can always ‘outsource’ the managing of this scheme! Just a small sampling on what MAS pays MILLIONS of RM to CONsultants for. So, tak payah lah nak bising sangat pasal RM18 million SAHAJA.!
    The sad sorry story of MAS, dulu, kini dan selamanya.

  17. YB and the rest,

    I am compelled to put in my two cents worth of opinion when you people are talking about consultant. In MAS currently there are four (i repeat) four different consulting companies to keep AJ and the brainless guy running MAS. One of the four is plane consult. I can’t help but wanting to share with you all here that the guy behind plane consult is Connor Mccarthy who is also the consultant friend of the pariah/AA. So this is the brains for the brainless guy in MAS. please keep praying for MAS guys, to show the pride we have for our national carrier.

    It has been made known that MAS has also engage a person in the name of Hugh from Westjet airline in Canada (another LCC) to champion oneworld for MAS. God knows since when a LCC man knows how to talk about premier airlines alliance. Can somebody share with us here how much is MAS paying this guy for this single portfolio job?

    In addition, let me tell u the brainless guy and the pariah have been secretly meeting an Air france guy on Skyteam Alliance. What AJ is talking about oneworld when the two goons are secretly meeting Skyteam Alliance? Maybe they want to undermine oneworld so that oneworld will not accept MAS. Then MAS will be left with one choice Alliance which is Air Asia. hehehe what a wonderful alliance this would be and we can enjoy witnessing MAS getting screwed left, right and centre.

    I also like to share a comment made by the brainless guy in the Edge recently. “MAS have access to the top minds of the industry. For instance, when we buy aircraft, we can learn from pariah. After all they ordered 200 plane in one go and that in itself tell you how powerful their negotiations are.”

    The best joke of the week, this is. Don’t you think, when you get good deal with volume purchase is ordinary skill. i thought, It is buying one plane at a discount of volume purchase is what we call brilliant. Sigh, he has no brain anyway.

    God, please bless MAS and rid him from all these crooks currently in there now.

  18. Rashdan is just a crony. The government must remove him as soon as possible before MAS is finished by this crony. He is a real bast..d. He has been thrown out from Maybank and his puppet master Azman took him into khazanah. both are ex-business partners in the Bina No Fikir. The country will be a better place if both these Bina Tak Fikir are removed from Khazanah and MAS.

  20. YB and the rest,

    An additional info to my earlier comment:

    Connor McCarthy is also a shareholder and board member of Air Asia Bhd. Is this collaborating or colonising?

    Where is MAS Advisor? Can we hear something from him please.

    Pffftttt, what else is new???????????

  21. Air Asia: Tony and the gangs just want to take advantage on MAS;

    1) Not paying MAHB the airport tax (how come they collect the airport tax from customers which they are nor performing the payment to MAHB) and maybe hoping that govt will let them free from settling the long out standing airport tax.. how come after using the MAHB airports now only tony query about SLA? what a so lame excuse? if no SLA, then AK must stop from flying from MAHB airport? How about then? Lets not to forget that AJ(Ahmad Jauhari formerly had attached with MAHB). Air Asia also failed to refund the airport tax for the absence/no-show passengers!!! Really a BIG THIEF!!!

    2) AK take over so many MH routes.. they only stop their 4 unprofitable route where as MH dicontinue more than ten destination. We well verse that Air AsiaX making losses compared to short haul services.

    3) QPR case, obviously AK have 2 jerseys compared to the payor(MH) only one. This x malu Air Asia curi Firefly theme color. Last time in year 2007, when firefly use red color for their ads, Air Asia pissed off? But now, using the Firefly color, come on la… what a shame!!(according to AJ; Questions on the QPR sponsorship were also raised and it was here that Mohammed Rashdan, Deputy Group CEO, provided clarification on the total investment cost which was RM9 million annually for two years. From the 38 games QPR will play, 30 of them will be in the home jersey with the Malaysia Airlines name and logo.

  22. In response to Old Man’s post (Jan 18), I thought ratification is no longer allowed by the board? If the ratification for the approval for QPR was allowed, then there sure is double standard. But then again, there are so many double standards in MAS to begin with.

    In the latest interview with AJ in the Edge, the first thing he said was that he’s still warming up. Still warming up after 4 months as MD when the company is bleeding?? That long to warm up? But of course, other people like Danny and TF are doing his job for him so he still has the luxury to warm up…..tak panas2 lagi ke AJ?

  23. Guys…guys…guys… we have been talking for months of this issues but to no where like anjing menyalak bukit. There has been nothing favorable to us so as the culprits be investigated or call whatsoever and furthermore no interest has been shown by the government to pursue at the end of the day it will be like nothing happened Malaysia Boleh maaa.

  24. Aj still warming up after 4 months then he should stop taking salary from now until he has finally finished warming up. He is just a Mr Blur and not about warming up. He just allowed Rashdan and the pariah to bull doze things and he blindly endorsed them.

    Aj where is your self respect?

  25. Time Traveller,

    Boards as representative of the shareholders have the penultimate authority over a Company. If they want to ratify, they can. If they want to backadte, also can.

  26. Anti-betrayal,

    I would like to cirrect some factual errors in your posting:

    #7) Alias asked for and was granted the transfer to Kota in 2008/09 during Idris Jala’s time. This is well before the CCF.

    #11) MA, RZ, MR and DS are no longer with MAS. DG is not the head of IA.

  27. Dear Anonymous, thank you for the info. Anyway as the caption for the head; i already put as at 30 sept 2011…

  28. Salam,

    Bila dah takda ilmu pasal aviation business, AJ panggil consultant luar negara untuk bagi nasihat camana nak jalankan bisnes. What a stupid move. Ada yg bagus macam CEO MAS cargo, dia buang lepas tu ambik mat saleh, india ke arab, bayo gaji juta2 untuk bagi nasihat je. Apa punya bodoh melayu seko ni. Kenapa tak bagi aku je untuk jalankan operasi MAS tu, tapi bayo gaji sama macam mat salleh shane tu. Ini namanye KERA DI HUTAN DISUSUKAN, MELAYU KAT MALAYSIA DIPERBODOHKAN.

  29. Anon 12:35

    Dah gitu the current staff have to teach these inexperienced consultants about the realities. Cocky pulak tu macam dah pandai sangat and dah di beri power by the CEO.

    Kalau staff kata tak boleh buat kerana banyak sebab yang consultant bodoh ni tak tau, mereka menonong report kat AJ, staff ni tak sesuai and unsupportive.

    Kuasa dah di beri pada orang yang bodoh sombong oleh orang yang bodoh sombong juga.

    Its the same thing happeing all over again. Previously it was the Idris’ TMO.

  30. If appointing Consultant is the SOP then MAS does not need CEO and Deputy CEO. Aj and Rashdan, please resign. No self respect kah? YB please check what sis the total of Consultant fees have been paid by Khazanah yearly especially MAS.

  32. There is nothing we can do now. And even The PM, Ah Jip Kor said he didnt know about the share swap when all the unions and association president wanted to meet him. B4 Anwar verdict, the PM trying to avoid to meet those unions and association president, after anwar is released, he started to worry and willing to meet them. To those that really love MAS and wanted so much to get rid of those bastards, what we can do now is to wait for GE13. What we have been told, everything will be finalized by June 2012. If BN win, we all the MAS staff will ‘gone’. We all will be ‘raped’. So we cannot let BN win this coming GE13 if we wanted to save MAS. I believe PR is very interested to investigate the so call share swap/CCF stuff if given the power.

  33. The good for nothing crony/ConSultant has no self respect and pride. that’s why he is still hanging on to his post. Just another Panamera deadwood. Get rid of this bloody crony.

  37. What a great news! Australian authority was investigating into AirAsia’s business model. No wonder that big mouth TF is extremely quiet. I am sure that Rashdan the crony will not be very pleased with this news. It will not be too long for other jurisdictions to investigation into the CCF.

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