Updates @ 12:30 pm on 31-5-2012: Rumour has it that Mr Shane Nollan of PlaneConsult, who had played a very significant role in the uplifting of the 35,000 passengers from AAX Sdn Bhd with very low fares and the Re-Accommodation Agreement, has ended his “honeymoon” as Acting Commercial Director of MAS yesterday. Was his tenure ended abruptly? Is PlaneConsult still doing the “CONSULTING” work for AJ?
It seems that Rashdan, the Amok’s most trusted crony, is still running “AMOK” in MAS. He was seen accompanying AJ in the inaugural A380 flight from Paris to KL yesterday.
Can someone in MAS help to confirm the above?
Rozman, Shane Nollan, Martin Burrow, Azhari, Nor Zalida and Zaharah Zaid, what are you all waiting for? To be given the boot from MAS. It will soon come for sure. MAS does not need your services. Rashdan had gone. Thank God for that Thank you Mr PM. Get rid of the other dead wood, please.
yb,
kita lawan habis-habisan.
semoga kejayaan berada di pihak tuan.
pm,
kotakan apa yg dijanjikan
Bravo YB Wee….. I hope The coming of Dr Don will boost up the profit of MAS which has been stolen from the AMOK groups and untalented appointment…
The board should now be headed by someone free of skeletons and past excess baggage so that the likes of Dr Don can function effectively. New chairman pleeze…
U are absolutely right bro!!!!! GO to hell AJY and AMOK……
You MUST be kidding! Or you must have a very short memory. Dr Don was in MAS during the times MAS was also losing money! Don’t keep your hopes too high, Dr Don is not going to be the hero that will save MAS. It is the 20,000 staff, provided they have the right leadership. So, if after all these months, staff do not see the leadership, it is high time to eject AJ, Maidupgrader and all the AA people and get the right CEO. Not bring in some has-been who is probably out of touch with the industry, and worse, will probably rely on his old buddies for “information”, probably over some drinks, and the drinks will determine the validity of the “information”? We will be back in the same vicious cycle, yet again.
next person will be MR AJY…….
Well done, folks.
Yes, we must expose all these c***ks, past and present.
More shitty details here;
http://www.rockybru.com.my/2010/08/why-sia-is-worth-s187-b-and-mas-is.html
Dear YB,
Excellent write up as usual. The only thing I would like to add as a comment is that, while all the shenanigans was going on in MAS, a new CEO was appointed and although he may not be an aviation expert, he has to take FULL responsibility when BAD decisions are made especially after his appointment.
The very fact he condoned a lot of things and was unable to see the forest from the trees means that he has TO GO as well. I just felt your article didn’t emphasize enough, his complicity in the whole debacle.
A CEO has to be prepared to be hired and fired. It’s the nature of the beast. So with the many blunders that happen under his watch, the current CEO must go as well.
Alhamdulillah!!!
The best wake up news of the day from your posting YB!!! Am at a lost of words to express our deep gratitude to you Sir for being the clarion to muster all resolve within MAS to begin the long and painful steps of getting MAS on its feet again.
Alas, its merely by a stroke of the pen for the little Napoleons to destroy everything that years of sweat and effort built and will definitely take at least a few more years before we can regain the trust of our esteemed customers who were displaced and abondoned by the napoleons’ CROOKED INITIATIVES. Nevertheless, let cut the jubilations as there are mountains of serious works to do, notwithstanding the fact that we still have AA imports and cronies running around for their REAL MASTERS.
Ayuh! Teruskan Perjuangan Memulih MAS!
Danny boy finally gone.
Good riddance!
Last kopek to Paris! Yon wont get away Danny!
Good news for MAS staffs that finally he’s OUT!!! Waiting for other AK’s crony to resign/forced resign as AK’s cronies shouldn’t be in MH as is’t totally and definitely will have a conflict of interest!!! Of course, in operational/engineering/revenue+finance/marketing/etc team as well, the staff of MH business rival should be sacked within 24-hrs upon cancellation of the share swap(even if the share swap still ON, in the first place, the swap should only had impact on the share, not in operational team, info etc!!) Totally ‘selling’ off the secret of MH will makes MH bleeding even more!!
Once the dust has settled, I hope MAS will start a civil action suit against the culprits for causing untold damages to MAS during their 10-months reign of terror. Sue them (TF, Amok, Shane, Danny etc etc) for RM1 billion at least.. I’m sure the accountants in MAS can calculate the value of free flights, cancelled flights, cancelled routes etc etc
Beside Shane Nollan, Rozman, Azhari, Nor Zalida and Zahara Zaid, the little Napoleons in Khazanah. There must be a spring cleaning of undesirable elements in MAS and Khazanah. This is the best opportunities for the PM to act.
Realignment of Costs & Speed of Change
YB,
Financial projections may not be the ideal first step as the BOD is very much the same bar a few characters. All it would show will be a cashflow based on current plans, which at best, will be confusing and detrimental to MH as a going concern.
A CLEAR & transparent change in the governments direction for MH is required and then a change in the MH BOD in order to carry this CLEAR & transparent direction through.
What is clear is the need to control costs first and then to enhance revenue. Revenue leakages strategy only shows that certain costs cannot be touched. This is rubbish and such practices must be done with in any shape or form.
Speed…..speed of change….. is paramount. No point of dilly dallying with one strategy after another if the bottom line is the same or worse. Time is not in MH’s side.
Change takes time but we Malaysians are innovative, we’ve shown it before by going against accepted norms. However, selling assets & using provisions are no longer acceptable norms, see where MH is now.
Now to press on with the realignment & change…. I’m with you YB.
We must get rid of the useless Mat Salleh like Martin Barrow too. Yes, YB you are right this Martin Barrow is another one of the contributors of the LEAKAGES.
Alhamdulilah! Rashdan had gone but when there is no announcement of his disappearance by AJ. Is AJ still trying hard to keep him? AJ should also pack up and go to AirAsia or AAX.
You are just unfit for the job AJ. You are only good as a pen pusher like the Nanny Danny.
Dear YB,
I just wondering; If the so called SHARE SWAP aka SUAP is called off, why AK still using MH routes. The people of Sabah & Sarawak need the reinstatement of Firefly routes such as KK & Kuching!!! The other AK terminated routes such as Paris, London etc has never benefit MH but due to losses of the routes. Not to mention about the trial AK using MH routes such as Dubai, Jeddah & other existing MH routes!!! Can we STOP AK from cannibalizing MH?? All the agreement, so called MOU, MOA etc should be ceased as there is NO SHARE SWAP!!! What ever you had taken, you have to return it!!! MUST!!! YB, really appreciate if you could ask them to do so in the Parliament… Many thanks YB…
Why no official announcement from MAS regarding Nanny Danny’s departure. We must make sure that this bas..d is out from MAS at all costs. He is the main culprit for the share swap. We must expose him further.
This good for nothing AJ should be thrown out asap. Just look at the Re-Accommodation Agreement will tell us all that he is looking after the AAX interests. The suitable place of abode is AA. AJ, just go to AA if that Pariah wants you.
Why is the topless management is keeping very quiet about Nanny Danny? Lets stop this nanny Danny last kopek. throw him out from MAS if still want to hang on.
Now get rid of that bloody boot polisher AJ.
saya setuju AJ dihantar ke AirAsia jadi CEo> ha ha ha! kalau mereka nak dia!
MAS staffs, please look at the re-accommodation agreement signed by the stupid AJ. Can anyone tell us where to get these type of fares including taxes from any other airlines? Only an idiot will agree to such low fares.
At the same time, this AJ will be telling us to work to increase revenue. Is this the way the CEO increased MAS revenue by granting AAX such low fares and at the same time BLOCK seats for time. Bloody stupid isn’t it?
I just cannot believe we have an idiot like AJ as CEO of MAS. AJ is not fit to be the CEO of the mamak stall let alone MAS. .
Dear YB,
correction YB. The 1st A380 is for London route, not Tokyo… As per internal circulation, The new A380-800 is designed for 140,000 flight hours. This means it can fly around the world more than 2,000 times in its lifetime. It has a nautical range of 13,500km (8,300 nmi) flying up to 15 hours. From an operational viewpoint on our route management, the A380 is an ideal aircraft for the Kuala Lumpur to London flight. On 1 July 2012, the inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur to London will take place. The frequency for the A380 for the Kuala Lumpur to London flight will be scheduled on 3 flights per week. The rest will be on the B747-400. ..
Dear Anti Air Asia,
You were right that the first A380 are for London route 3x week. When the second aircraft arrive, it will be used daily to London. After the third and fourth aircraft come there will be twice daily flight to London. Fifth and sixth aircrafts are planned for lucrative Sydney or Melbourne routes.
YB heard that those lucrative Sydney/Melbourne routes are not going to use A380. Instead they will be used for Tokyo route which load is not so lucrative due to high competition from other airlines. YB’s conclusion was quite straight forward. To safeguard AAX who were given (on a silver platter by AJ on the advice from Shane Nollan) the supposedly additional frequency of MAS.
So my friend, before correcting YB, please read thoroughly and understand what was written by him. Kalau boleh correct pun tentang Danny pergi Paris on first class. Kalau dia pergi dengan MAS, dia naik business class je sebab MAS guna Boeing 777 ke Paris(tak ada first class).
Walau bagaimanapun semua tu perkara kecil sahaja. Marilah sama-sama kita jari jalan untuk membantu YB memperjuang dan memperbetulkan kepincangan yang berlaku dalam MAS.
Yang pastinya we share one common feeling; ANTI AIR ASIA !!
Salam hormat.
Dear YB…
sorry if i had overlooked your entry…. my bad..
Dear Jumpseat,
Many thanks for the rectification… ya.. i really anti A_ and T* badly!! (publicly perceived as Father Teresa in the social network) HUH!!
Danny boi,
First you got kicked out from Maybank, and now MAS. Obviously you still do not learn from your past mistakes. Only fool like you do the same mistake twice. You can simpan your double first class honours degree from University of Cambridge. You are nothing but a LOSER!
Dolly…
super like ur statement!!! 🙂
latest news at awani & TV3 there’s no announcement on departure of Danny. official news only said that to date, there’s no changes on management. Hope news @ awani will tell the truth.
Dear YB, congratulation on your effort to save MAS, however, the journey still far since few napoleons still in MAS.
MASEU, what happen to u guys??? diam jer skrang.. Korang dah kena SU.P plak ker?? Make sure MASEU consistence in this movement. I wonder what will happen to all MAS staffs especially cabin crew since management have offer to all for 2 years UNPAID leave. Is it make sense???
affendy…
nowadays, there is no more genuine news aired via tv… all were paid news… we can see ‘slot tajaan’ or even the tv station only aired the propaganda news… huh.. tengok saja lah.. even kat paper pun sama… berita pasal MAS ada masalah enjin, teknikal, kalau boleh bukan seantero malaya tapi satu dunia diorang nak warwarkan… Pasal Air Asia, terkandas di runway KUching, pasal passenger mengamuk di KK 16/3 akibat flight tengahari ditangguh tanpa dilayan dgn baik ke 4ptg, dah boarding, pilot mintak keluar balik coz ada masalah teknikal.. sudahnya almost 6pm baru take off… Apasal, x keluar dalam berita yer??? huh..
Dear YB & affendy,
boleh sapa2 tolong check x apa flight AK buat di Skypark? Kalau dia nak test flight sekali pun, setiap kali touch down kat runway LTSAAS, dia x kena bayar airport kah? terkini, semalam(30/5/2012) jam 6ptg +++(nasib baik saya bukan penumpang AK, kalau x, nak tanya jugak ke mana perginya airport tax yg AK charge bagi penumpang yg x turn up, lagi satu, dah kutip tax, kenapa x bayar kat MAHB, nak servis yang terbaik, tapi semua nak free(free la coz dok bagi alasan xde SLA, xde SLA jangan la MAHB kasi derang operate kat MAHB. Pi la non-MAHB airport) dah la ambil laluan MAS, pastu mendabik dada etc)) Tolong check ya…. TQVM… 🙂
Danny boy will only bring problems and disgrace to any company that he joins. He can only survive in Khazanah when his master is around and AirAsia if he is of some use. I believe not welcome in AirAsia if he is out of MAS.
He brought shame to Cambridge uni. He is just another rubbish.
By the way Danny boy, have you upgraded your maid to your maser bedroom with your wife? Better do so that they can be in-law!!!
While AJ offers massive discounts to AA pax, we here
at MAS have to pay an arm and a leg for our rebate ticket.
Just checked last week that a 90% sub-load ticket to Sydney
costs $rm 1250 return. And the best part is that the Family Travel Scheme
has expired since March. Pls MASEU wake up and see what HRC is doing!
Shankar
To this brainless AJ, staffs are not important. We are just a tool to him to mess us around. When it suits him, he will praise and he needs to use us to defend his stupidity he will say that we are of “low productivity”.
just look at the fares structure for the 35,000 AAX passengers, only an idiot would agree it. Actually AJ agree to it because he thought TF is his immediate boss and he is working for AAX and seconded to MAS.
This is how MAS lost revenue. This is the type of leakages we should stop. It is a clear case of opportunity for MAS to make money and yet this idiot AJ chose to look after the interest of AAX rather than MAS. Do w mean need an idiot like this to be MAS CEO. Quite frankly, AJ is not fit to wash the toilets in MAS.
AJ is a wolve in sheep skin. We must all watch his every move and expose him until he is thrown out in disgrace.
Heard from someone that the scandalous Nanny Danny was accompany that idiot AJ on the A380 back to KL. What a waste of MAS fund to have these two idiot on the new A380.
Nanny Danny should not be allowed to step foot even on Firefly turbo prop aircraft. We must ban this bas..d from our MAS flight. Let Nanny Danny and his wife to fly AAX or any other airlines. Anyway Nanny Danny wife is of the standard of his Nanny after all.
The Star reported that AJ and Rashdan were on board the new bird when it landed in KL, then were joined by others on a short flight to Langkawi and back before being parked in Hanger 6. The Star also reported that the new bird will return to France for some additional touches.
Little birds have told me that the plane was actually delivered with the wrong configuration! Additional touches indeed!
Ten years after MAS ordered the A380, and its finally here, with the WRONG configuration? Yes, heard the current genius management headed by AJ changed it from 494 to 512, now flip-flopped and to change it back to 494 again. Ladies and gentlemen, changing AIRCRAFT configuration is not like changing seats for minibuses, it costs hell of a lot of money! Anyone can provide the cost of 200 tons of fuel it took to get the aircraft into Kuala Lumpur, another 200 tons to go back to Toulouse and yet another 200 tons to get it back here again for the “inaugural” flight?Heard the flight to Toulouse will carry dozens of merry-makers, intresting to see the list, especially when MAS is bleeding? Now the whole world and the next have already seen the aircraft, and a lot of confusion amongst the public when the photos of the aircraft that arrived yesterday doesn’t look like the one in the advertisments? Hello AJ and the Comms team, you just squandered a golden opportunity to make a “big BANG” with the A380, by the time 1st July comes, it is STALE. Not to mention the confusion among the public with 2 or is it 3 logos/brands for one airline. Another question – if, by any chance, the A380 is grounded for whatever reason after 1st July (or more horrifying, ON 1st or 2nd July), what is the plan? Pinjam A380 SQ ke? Or downgrade to the old 747?
This afternoon..saw few Airasia planes landed at Subang airport. what is going on? Is repair & maintenence work using MAS facilities already taken place? YB..please investigate
Maybe the reason is that Air Asia were doing testing, as in Pilot assessments or something along those lines?
Dear antitalam2muka,
It was AA training flight for new pilots. I was nearby playing golf and saw the many landings and take offs. Nonetherless, it is also good if someone inside can highlight on the maintenance collorboration if it has really indeed started.
Regards.
Eng depart, let’s united, dont touch those planes, let it rot to the gnd….
I also saw it, but late evening as i live very near to skypark… often seen Air Asia lingering at SZB since the so called CCF taken place, on & off espc weekend… YB, as per my earlier comments in other thread and comment to affendy, we really appreciated if YB could investigate further this matter. Is it alrite for them to use it? Is there any tax/levy should be imposed to them? Should there’s a violation of power/influence of AJ(as MAHB former staff) to letting AK to do so? Is DCA aware of if and so forth… To date, there is no AK flight being/has been repaired by MAS, SZB since the CCF tie-knot or the divorce(unwound)..
AJ dan Rashdan sama aja. Perlu dibuang dalam longkang besar.
Who’s next after Danny?
Answer: Azman M (M for Mangkuk). Amokh is the root to all problems in GLCs. Please send him and his bin$.ucker partner-in-cr.me Danny rotiboi to Somalia!
Re instate Firefly ASAP. It will definitely make money.
1000% agree!!! Let the sabahan & sarawakian having back their job & route instead!!!
I agree, engineering should leave Air Asial planes unattended. Let them find another MRO that would accept their ridiculous demands for rock bottom charges. Let it be known to the world that the LCC business model is nothing but a failure & a gigantic Ponzi scheme.
FYI, the engineering CEO Azahari has been non commital in his position which has resulted in MAS engineering being without direction & stagnant for the past 10 months. This is the guy that was so praised by AJ during his appointment as if he was the sage of the MRO industry.
Main intention – to get in AASIAL acft for free maintenance!!!
That bloody maid up-grader/Amok crony Rashdan has the cheek to be on board of A380 of MAS when has done so much damage to MAS. That bullshitter AJ can condone the maid up-grader to be near him.
AJ why is MAS charging such low fares to AAX and at the same time your mentor Shane Nollan allowed for BLOCK booking?Is this how your “increase” revenue for MAS?
AJ you have have been saying one thing and doing another? You have now upgraded yourself to become the CEO of Panamera Deadwood.
We are watching you and your mentor Shane Nollan.
I saw Nanny Danny coming out of A380 with that idiotic AJ.
The Sun has reported that Nanny Danny has resigned. Why that Nanny Danny is still on the flight? another free loader like TF and Kamarudin Meranun?
it would appear that the nanny Danny free loader is still in MAS.
AJ should send out e-mail to tell the staffs that the freeloader nanny Danny is still in MAS. Why is AJ keeping silence on this? He should come out in defend of the Nanny Danny.
What is that useless Nor Zalida doing after all? She working so hard to send e-mail as late as 12 midnight to inform staffs that the re-accommodation agreement to help AAX was signed around midnight and she could not send out an e-mail regarding the status of Nanny Danny. What a joke!
if you think the AAX ticket accommodation was scandalous, wait till you hear of the maintenance accomodation for AASIAL by MH engineering
Did you notice the photograph of the A380 today in the newspaper? The tail was painted new MAS logo with the blue color instead the normal red WAU. It look really ugly – tak dak seri langsung. Whatever came with that colour scheme need their head to be examined.
good observation, danny’s nanny! the new logo, the one that looks like it’s going to stumble, of course it could not fit to be placed on the tail. the normal red blue wau was so designed with the correct slant. them smart alecs thought they were smart, but proven stupid when they had to use the proper wau. bina tak fikir all the way! dickheads!
How is MAS going to make profits flying it’s A380s to Sydney and Melbourne?
To make business sense, it has to be able to compete effectively on the Kangaroo Route, i.e. Sydney and Melbourne to London via KL.
Consider the competitors on this route. There is SIA, British Airways and Qantas who operate the route via Singapore and Emirates who operate the route via Dubai.
SIA, Qantas and Emirates fly their A380s on this route.
So, where is MAS’s unique competitive edge and value proposition on this route vis-a-vis SIA, Qantas, Emirates and British Airways?
Does it have the financial muscle and the ability to sustain low air fares to compete with these airlines?
Second, if you consider the business traveller traffic, which supports the premium first and business class service, aren’t Singapore and Dubai more established financial and business centres than KL?
If MAS can’t fill the premium cabins in their A380s with these lucrative full fare-paying business travellers, then is it going to make it’s profits on the backs of the long-suffering economy class passengers who are extremely price-conscious?
It seems to me that there is a lot of pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking going on here, with a blissful disregard of cost pressures and economic realities (the dismal economic situation in Europe and the UK being just one of them).
Jasper Bloodstone
Good and valid observations. The business plan for the kangaroo hope will never be 1 dimensional.
The last few months have taken a tremendous toll on MAS to deliver on what it does best. There will be no one solution but an amalgamation of strategies and deliverables that would be developed and delivered to the discerning traveller.
MAS has one of the best services from wheels up to wheels down which is proven over decades. She needs to rediscover her passion and recover her loyal customers. Malaysia as a Business hub is an issue but not one that affects the choice of a traveller whose end destination is London. The MAS team has to hunker down and deliver what it does best in a competitive market. The volume of traffic on this route can accommodate the competition.
MAS can prevail on a level playing field with clear objectives and undivided support from her staff. This is where she needs to go and excel. Give the internal talent the opportunity and they will deliver. Our Country deserves it.
YB,
What I heard is that Shane Nolan’s extended tenure as temporary Commercial Director end at the end of this month.
The CD post will be taken over by Hugh Dunleavy who was recuited at the same time as Shane for the Network and Strategy.
Plane Consult/Shane Nolan and gang are still retained to provide consultancy services to MAS/AJ.
YB, You said
“Yours truly has been informed by reliable sources that MAS will not be operating its A380 to Melbourne or Sydney but it will, however, be operating to Tokyo. Isn
Parameswara
You have been caught in this blog for shifting your goal posts as the game was played.
Use your brain. The Melbourne route was just put up. previously it was omitted and MAS will A380 will fly to Tokyo only. What was written by YB was correct.
What have you got to say about the other points that have been published?
How about the Re-accommodation Agreement with such extremely low fares charged to AAX? What about the parachuted Rozman, Azhari and Nor Zalida?
What about the high salaries and perks of the idiots top managers in MAS?
What about the the conflict of conflict interest of Shane Nollan and PlaneConsult?
What about the termination of Surabaya and Bandung routes? AirAsia X increased of its flights and increased its fares by more htan2 folds?
What about Azhari Dhalan is not the EASA approved Nominated Post Holder?
What about the Panamera Deadwood like Martin Barrow?
Shame on you! You are just a Pariah’s blind cyber trooper.
Just ignore that cyber trooper (Parameswara) of the Pariah.
Shane Nollan departure: Good riddance of bad rubbish! That ma Salleh should be given he boot from MAS instead letting him go like that. What about the PlaneConsult, the special con-sultant to stupid Aj.
AJ when are you going. Another good riddance to bad rubbish when AJ disappears from MAS.
SHANE
Ten years after MAS ordered the A380, and its finally here, with the WRONG configuration? Yes, heard the current genius management headed by AJ changed it from 494 to 512, now flip-flopped and to change it back to 494 again. Ladies and gentlemen, changing AIRCRAFT configuration is not like changing seats for minibuses, it costs hell of a lot of money! Anyone can provide the cost of 200 tons of fuel it took to get the aircraft into Kuala Lumpur, another 200 tons to go back to Toulouse and yet another 200 tons to get it back here again for the
True, the FC and BC look very cheap, macam minibus punya.
Apa punya bodoh lah AJ and gang but I still blame the new chairman, dia yang pilih AJ.
Cepat cepat belah sebelum pekung banyak lagi keluar
Barua betul, jahanam MAS!
thanks yb. but please no to dr don, or dr con as he was known in the flight operations.
if not, it’s going to be another SSDD thingy.