MAS with new livery after the Mas -AirAsia share “suap”. The cost of this new livery was part of “cost cutting” to MAS under AJ.
MAS livery before the MAS-AirAsia share ‘suap”.
30 thoughts on “Under AJ, MAS loss RM4.1 million daily!”
Wow! What an achievement for AJ and his Hollywood team! RM4.1 million with the sleeping Adviser! But AJ said that he will turn around MAS in 2014 which is only 2 months away. This stupid Najmudin was still trying to spin, He thought we in MAS are stupid people except he and his boss AJ. what an idiot to come out with such stupid email to embarrass MAS. This spin doctor is another gaji buta in MAS.
I wonder what good ‘advise’ can Abdullah Badawi give to MAS, They already have hollywood & bollywood team to advise them, anyway. How much do they pay Abdullah? Get rid of him please.
Well done again YMB, Yang Masih Berkhidmat.
Thank you for sticking with us on MAS while the Unions have gone back to taking sleeping pills.
Keep it up.
AJ chairs a commercial meeting every Friday. If he does not make improvement every 12 weeks to his strategy then don’t chair the meeting.
Foreign exchange losses, fuel cost and competition is part and parcel of the competitive landscape of the aviation industry. Money needs to be spent where it counts. Having a large HR department is not one. The HR director is paid 121k a month and have so many managers under her that one wonders whether MAS is a recruitment agency or not. Does not make sense, why allow a cost centre to be so bloated?
MAS subsidiaries should be gotten rid off. It can’t even take care of its core business how can it monitor and handle the smaller units?
That Spin Doctor is wasting a space in MAS. Good for nothing. YB was right to say that other airlines are also facing the same problems as MAS and yet they are not losing RM4.1 million a day. Understand gaji buta spin doctor.
AJ is a lost cause. Just get rid of him and his Bollywood & Hollywood.
AJ was a useless CEO that’s why MAS is in such a mess. He was responsible for terminating Dubai,Bandung, Surabaya, Darwin, Rome, Johannesburg and many more more routes. Less than a year latter he appointed Seabury and Seabury recommended MAS to re-open Dubai, Darwin and many more other routes. Not to mention MAS under him gave out a profitable Sydney route to AirAsia X. Now MAS is losing RM4 million a day.
Yet another useless spin doctor Najmuddin has the audacity to send out such a stupid email to MAS staffs. An idiot will appoint idiots to surround him so that he can look smart.
RM4 million day is a lost of money to lose. AJ it is about time that you better pack up your bags and leave with your Bollywood and Hollywood. You are over staying and at the same time good for nothing.
2 years ago, the Chairman said “don’t judge us by the process but by the outcome”. With a loss of $830 million for the 9 months, is that enough to judge the outcome? Or shall we wait till the loss hits $1 billion?
What do we say of AJ and his management, particularly the hollywood and bollywood?
A Fool and Our money are soon parted ….
Patricia
Tan Sri Md Nor: “Don’t judge us by the process but by the outcome”. Tan Sri Md Nor what have you got to say about the outcome of RM4.1 million loss daily?????
AJ and his Hollywood and Bollywood should be sacked and told to go with disgrace like AJ’s good buddy Danny the Nanny. This shameless AJ must be shown the door. He is also a close friend of that pariah.
There are 8 Hollywood and Bollywood in MAS and yet MAS is losing RM4.1 million daily. WTF to have these good for nothing in MAS and have to pay them high salaries and perks. Most of the key Hollywood came from the low caste airline with AirAsia. What to do know about full service airline like MAS? To AJ, improvement mean the number of passengers have increased. That means MAS is doing well. No profit never mind. He thought that he could bullshit his way around. AJ should leave MAS asap and join his friend’s airline (AirAsia) where he will be appreciated by his good friend Tony.
You all are so ungrateful! Airlines everywhere reporting loss or lower revenue. Even Air Asia is reporting reduction in profits. Yet on the 25th day of every month, sometimes earlier but NEVER later you get your salary without fail. What somemore you want? Some airlines already cutting pay but you all still enjoying same pay with backdated pay review some more.
You scream and shout at current management. You think you can do better? Halo… be thankful lah that we all still have a job!
Kwik… copy paste your comments and sent it up to upper mgmt… they’d love to see you kiss ass….
I know who you are. Read my name please. Please rephrase about “NEVER later”? ONCE is also just enough. No need to bark about that anyway, public don’t see it, management and office staff enjoying the environment while other staff enjoying full of cow shits. Short of staff, why? Ask your people la, “don’t like you can RESIGN” motto? Now ground and flying staff also short. Salary only RM4k++? Sometimes even lesser, compare to other airlines? Ya we know, semua orang ada masalah, kambing, ikan dan lembu pun ada masalah.
Halo Anonymous
You sound as if it is enough to receive a salary every month on 25th and be grateful regardless how the company is doing.
Is it not the job of the ceo to ensure the company’s profitability and long term sustainability? And was it not for that reason that some of the ceos in MAS were let go? Why should it be different now? Especially after all the big show, the big promises and the drama of the share swap, the import of the so called experts who brought even more so called experts?
No one would have complained if all worked hard and earnestly, shouldering the burden as a team together. Instead, this management see the lame excuse of poor results to witch hunt, cannabilise and brought the pride of twenty odd thousand staff who cared into the dust!
And please la, other airlines strive to strengthen their balance sheet and profitability. They may have lower profits but a solid foundation unlike MAS that yo-yo losing credibility.
No, it is not enough to just be grateful for salary on 25th of each month. There is such a thing as duty, honor and pride.
The catering contract with LSG Skychef (the Badawi’s brother company) must be terminated otherwise MAS will be just working for them. Thanks to TS Md Nor for getting MAS into such a mess. But none of the CEO after that did try to do something to terminate it. AJ just pretend not to know. The Hollywood are having a honeymoon time and do not bother about the one sided catering contract.
Looking at AJ’s track record during and after the share swap, there is nothing to talk about him. He should be thrown out of MAS at the earliest opportunity. He is good for nothing. He is just drawing a fat salary and enjoying all the perks.
Well said again, Patricia,
The truth is AJ is Md Nor’s running donkey way back from RMC days.
The Dalai Lama has this common-sense counsel about greed:
I’m a regular MAS traveler both on economy and business class mostly within Asean..at the same time i also travel using our neighbour’s airlines such as SIA, Thai and Garuda. Sadly…MAS service is getting worse day by day. Food..lousy and tasteless with same old menu..pls get rid of Brahim Skychef. Morale of cabin crew during flights clearly low although they try their best not to show it. I cant blame them if increment and bonuses for the past few years is lower than BR1M. No wonder MAS is no longer voted in 2013 SKYTRAX top 10 of world best airlines which is the opposite for Garuda when it now rated at no 7. From customer’s point of view, i just cant see any improvement from this new management except they just inherit turnaround plans done by previous management such as new fleet replacements, Oneworld programme etc. Getting more volume of passengers but at the expense of yield is the worst strategy and it will not sustain. Current management…your time is up!!
Hellllooo AJ , this is not IPP you are running, its an airline you morons, IPP is a guaranteed money making business protected by a power purchase agreement – no brainer job, boleh lah tunjuk hero kat sana.
And don’t know why did the government still let this bunch of jokers still monkeying around.
What a waste of public funds paying these useless goons.
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GE Man
I fully agree with you. A good write up.
I am wondering why is AJ keeping the former AirAsia Botak Head in engineering. Everyh AirAsia moles had left because they knew they were not wanted in MAS after the dirty share deal by Tony and his friends in Khazanah [Rashdan (Danny the Nanny) & Azman Mokhtar] has been reversed by the Government. Buit this bloody Botak Head still hanging to look after the interest of the Pariah.
AJ the brainless or pretend to be brainless, why MAS had to send its aircraft India to service its own planes with extra cost and AirAsia was given the priority over MAS? This is a clear brainless and treacherous act on the part of that clueless and brainless AJ.
What is the Board of directors of MAS doing about this matter? Why is the Botak Head kept in engineering when every AirAsia moles (Rashdan, Rozman Omar and few others) have left quietly?
The Government must investigate into the going on in engineering to see whether the Botak Head is looking after the interest of MAS or AirAsia? If necessary, please get Dr MACC to check whether this Botak Head is on SLEEPING PILLS and whether he has made decisions in the best interest of MAS?
We must get rid of the Botak Head asap before it is too late.
Well doe, GE man!
You have hit the nail on the head of the Bo(otak) that useless Aj, who is a good friend of that pariah! I just cannot believe that a CEO can be that dumb to allow the Bo(otak) head to fool him just like that. Or he was a willing party in order to help his pariah friend! what has been said by GE Man was a similar situation where AJ sign a back dated agreement to accommodate AirAsia X 50,000 passengers when it stopped to fly to London, Paris, Munbai and other routes. AJ how could you charged the passengers of the pariah’s controlled airline at about RM1,000 to London?
AJ, who are you trying to fool, no airline charged about RM1,000 to London except MAS under you, the brainless! Please also take note that AirAsia X has not interline agreement with MAS. Under such circumstances, MAS should have charged AirAsia x market fare. In this case, MAS was subsidising AirAsia X by lifting its 50,000 passengers at fares below market fares and cater free food for them when they don’t get free food in AirAsia X and the extra free 10 kg baggage allowance under MAS.
The time has come for you to go. please go fast unless you want to leave in DISGRACE like Danny the Nanny!
AJ, you are no longer fit to head MAS period. Those were appointed by you are also not fit to be in MAS including the Hollywood and Bollywood, the Spin Dr and Fat Biscuit Lady!.
So an “intensive advertising programme to build the Malaysia Airlines’ brand” has also dented the airline’s finances ? What brand ? What message ? What is the “brand” trying to convey with a flurry of people, including a pregnant mum carrying suitcases?? My daughter asked me if MAS was promoting used suitcases. Come on, if you want to recoup your advertising spend, clear the baggage mindset and the garbled tagline.
And as for that statement “…MAS has “widened its network footprint and thickened its reach ….”, what does it all mean ?
AJ and the gang should learn from Ethiopian Airlines, which maintains an almost uninterrupted record of profitability since its inception despite having feced all those unfavourable external factors just like what any other airline is facing – high and volatile fuel price, Europe recession, stiff competition especially from ever-booming Gulf-based carriers, amongst others. Add in the bureaucracy problems and high airport tax common throughout Africa – Ethiopian’s regional base. Ethiopian Airlines is also said to have remained profitable EVEN during the height of the nation’s civil war and great famine in 1980s. It’s also being dubbed as “a capitalist success in the marxist Ethiopia”. AJ should really learn something from this.
That way you’ll kill costs from deadweight – from management to bottom feeders (of which there are many, some of which are probably browsing this site instead of working) who came to work at 9, spend a majority of their time in the cafe, then promptly leaving before 5.30 all the while collecting their 7.5% increment every year without fail. It’s these viruses which have infected MAS and is rotten to the core. Of course they wouldn’t blame themselves but would play the finger pointing game which is clearly so evident here.
A new MAS would mean a new way of doing business, from investing in upgraded infrastructures like revamping the antiquated Internet Booking Engine, new Business/First Class seats that’s fully flat on all aircraft & better offerings all around.
It worked for Japan Airlines, why wouldn’t it work for MAS?
the highest in business class fares .. the most deplorable/unworthy foods served .. ie SUCKS BIG TIME and sucking into One World does not help them to boost their travelers instead chasing the regulars to opt for another carrier .. CHEAPER AND EASIER TO GET SEAT!! btw those over size smelly Australian / Americans or whatever should be bath and clean up before boarding and please do measure their alcohol level while at it …. kbaii MAS shoved those gold and platinum up ur arse ..
Recently took an MAS flight. It started with ‘sorry our take off is delayed’. During the flight ‘sorry your seat is unable to recline, sorry something wrong with it’, during meal time ‘sorry we are only able to offer you this two choices of drinks’, ‘sorry you cant use the WC on this row as something wrong’, before landing ‘sorry for the late arrival’
Please change MAS name to ‘Sorry Airlines’
Dunleavy and Kutty have both moved over to Qatar Airways and have embarked on exactly the same strategy of slashing fares to increase passenger numbers, seemingly totally ignoring yield and playing right into the hands of the large agents. Qatar Airlines is walking into disaster. These 2 muppets seem intent on bringing down big airlines 1 at a time.
MAS livery before the MAS-AirAsia share ‘suap”.
Wow! What an achievement for AJ and his Hollywood team! RM4.1 million with the sleeping Adviser! But AJ said that he will turn around MAS in 2014 which is only 2 months away. This stupid Najmudin was still trying to spin, He thought we in MAS are stupid people except he and his boss AJ. what an idiot to come out with such stupid email to embarrass MAS. This spin doctor is another gaji buta in MAS.
I wonder what good ‘advise’ can Abdullah Badawi give to MAS, They already have hollywood & bollywood team to advise them, anyway. How much do they pay Abdullah? Get rid of him please.
Well done again YMB, Yang Masih Berkhidmat.
Thank you for sticking with us on MAS while the Unions have gone back to taking sleeping pills.
Keep it up.
AJ chairs a commercial meeting every Friday. If he does not make improvement every 12 weeks to his strategy then don’t chair the meeting.
Foreign exchange losses, fuel cost and competition is part and parcel of the competitive landscape of the aviation industry. Money needs to be spent where it counts. Having a large HR department is not one. The HR director is paid 121k a month and have so many managers under her that one wonders whether MAS is a recruitment agency or not. Does not make sense, why allow a cost centre to be so bloated?
MAS subsidiaries should be gotten rid off. It can’t even take care of its core business how can it monitor and handle the smaller units?
That Spin Doctor is wasting a space in MAS. Good for nothing. YB was right to say that other airlines are also facing the same problems as MAS and yet they are not losing RM4.1 million a day. Understand gaji buta spin doctor.
AJ is a lost cause. Just get rid of him and his Bollywood & Hollywood.
AJ was a useless CEO that’s why MAS is in such a mess. He was responsible for terminating Dubai,Bandung, Surabaya, Darwin, Rome, Johannesburg and many more more routes. Less than a year latter he appointed Seabury and Seabury recommended MAS to re-open Dubai, Darwin and many more other routes. Not to mention MAS under him gave out a profitable Sydney route to AirAsia X. Now MAS is losing RM4 million a day.
Yet another useless spin doctor Najmuddin has the audacity to send out such a stupid email to MAS staffs. An idiot will appoint idiots to surround him so that he can look smart.
RM4 million day is a lost of money to lose. AJ it is about time that you better pack up your bags and leave with your Bollywood and Hollywood. You are over staying and at the same time good for nothing.
2 years ago, the Chairman said “don’t judge us by the process but by the outcome”. With a loss of $830 million for the 9 months, is that enough to judge the outcome? Or shall we wait till the loss hits $1 billion?
What do we say of AJ and his management, particularly the hollywood and bollywood?
A Fool and Our money are soon parted ….
Patricia
Tan Sri Md Nor: “Don’t judge us by the process but by the outcome”. Tan Sri Md Nor what have you got to say about the outcome of RM4.1 million loss daily?????
AJ and his Hollywood and Bollywood should be sacked and told to go with disgrace like AJ’s good buddy Danny the Nanny. This shameless AJ must be shown the door. He is also a close friend of that pariah.
There are 8 Hollywood and Bollywood in MAS and yet MAS is losing RM4.1 million daily. WTF to have these good for nothing in MAS and have to pay them high salaries and perks. Most of the key Hollywood came from the low caste airline with AirAsia. What to do know about full service airline like MAS? To AJ, improvement mean the number of passengers have increased. That means MAS is doing well. No profit never mind. He thought that he could bullshit his way around. AJ should leave MAS asap and join his friend’s airline (AirAsia) where he will be appreciated by his good friend Tony.
You all are so ungrateful! Airlines everywhere reporting loss or lower revenue. Even Air Asia is reporting reduction in profits. Yet on the 25th day of every month, sometimes earlier but NEVER later you get your salary without fail. What somemore you want? Some airlines already cutting pay but you all still enjoying same pay with backdated pay review some more.
You scream and shout at current management. You think you can do better? Halo… be thankful lah that we all still have a job!
Kwik… copy paste your comments and sent it up to upper mgmt… they’d love to see you kiss ass….
I know who you are. Read my name please. Please rephrase about “NEVER later”? ONCE is also just enough. No need to bark about that anyway, public don’t see it, management and office staff enjoying the environment while other staff enjoying full of cow shits. Short of staff, why? Ask your people la, “don’t like you can RESIGN” motto? Now ground and flying staff also short. Salary only RM4k++? Sometimes even lesser, compare to other airlines? Ya we know, semua orang ada masalah, kambing, ikan dan lembu pun ada masalah.
Halo Anonymous
You sound as if it is enough to receive a salary every month on 25th and be grateful regardless how the company is doing.
Is it not the job of the ceo to ensure the company’s profitability and long term sustainability? And was it not for that reason that some of the ceos in MAS were let go? Why should it be different now? Especially after all the big show, the big promises and the drama of the share swap, the import of the so called experts who brought even more so called experts?
No one would have complained if all worked hard and earnestly, shouldering the burden as a team together. Instead, this management see the lame excuse of poor results to witch hunt, cannabilise and brought the pride of twenty odd thousand staff who cared into the dust!
And please la, other airlines strive to strengthen their balance sheet and profitability. They may have lower profits but a solid foundation unlike MAS that yo-yo losing credibility.
No, it is not enough to just be grateful for salary on 25th of each month. There is such a thing as duty, honor and pride.
The catering contract with LSG Skychef (the Badawi’s brother company) must be terminated otherwise MAS will be just working for them. Thanks to TS Md Nor for getting MAS into such a mess. But none of the CEO after that did try to do something to terminate it. AJ just pretend not to know. The Hollywood are having a honeymoon time and do not bother about the one sided catering contract.
Looking at AJ’s track record during and after the share swap, there is nothing to talk about him. He should be thrown out of MAS at the earliest opportunity. He is good for nothing. He is just drawing a fat salary and enjoying all the perks.
Well said again, Patricia,
The truth is AJ is Md Nor’s running donkey way back from RMC days.
The Dalai Lama has this common-sense counsel about greed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_QvVaZfFDKw
I’m a regular MAS traveler both on economy and business class mostly within Asean..at the same time i also travel using our neighbour’s airlines such as SIA, Thai and Garuda. Sadly…MAS service is getting worse day by day. Food..lousy and tasteless with same old menu..pls get rid of Brahim Skychef. Morale of cabin crew during flights clearly low although they try their best not to show it. I cant blame them if increment and bonuses for the past few years is lower than BR1M. No wonder MAS is no longer voted in 2013 SKYTRAX top 10 of world best airlines which is the opposite for Garuda when it now rated at no 7. From customer’s point of view, i just cant see any improvement from this new management except they just inherit turnaround plans done by previous management such as new fleet replacements, Oneworld programme etc. Getting more volume of passengers but at the expense of yield is the worst strategy and it will not sustain. Current management…your time is up!!
Hellllooo AJ , this is not IPP you are running, its an airline you morons, IPP is a guaranteed money making business protected by a power purchase agreement – no brainer job, boleh lah tunjuk hero kat sana.
And don’t know why did the government still let this bunch of jokers still monkeying around.
What a waste of public funds paying these useless goons.
It
GE Man
I fully agree with you. A good write up.
I am wondering why is AJ keeping the former AirAsia Botak Head in engineering. Everyh AirAsia moles had left because they knew they were not wanted in MAS after the dirty share deal by Tony and his friends in Khazanah [Rashdan (Danny the Nanny) & Azman Mokhtar] has been reversed by the Government. Buit this bloody Botak Head still hanging to look after the interest of the Pariah.
AJ the brainless or pretend to be brainless, why MAS had to send its aircraft India to service its own planes with extra cost and AirAsia was given the priority over MAS? This is a clear brainless and treacherous act on the part of that clueless and brainless AJ.
What is the Board of directors of MAS doing about this matter? Why is the Botak Head kept in engineering when every AirAsia moles (Rashdan, Rozman Omar and few others) have left quietly?
The Government must investigate into the going on in engineering to see whether the Botak Head is looking after the interest of MAS or AirAsia? If necessary, please get Dr MACC to check whether this Botak Head is on SLEEPING PILLS and whether he has made decisions in the best interest of MAS?
We must get rid of the Botak Head asap before it is too late.
Well doe, GE man!
You have hit the nail on the head of the Bo(otak) that useless Aj, who is a good friend of that pariah! I just cannot believe that a CEO can be that dumb to allow the Bo(otak) head to fool him just like that. Or he was a willing party in order to help his pariah friend! what has been said by GE Man was a similar situation where AJ sign a back dated agreement to accommodate AirAsia X 50,000 passengers when it stopped to fly to London, Paris, Munbai and other routes. AJ how could you charged the passengers of the pariah’s controlled airline at about RM1,000 to London?
AJ, who are you trying to fool, no airline charged about RM1,000 to London except MAS under you, the brainless! Please also take note that AirAsia X has not interline agreement with MAS. Under such circumstances, MAS should have charged AirAsia x market fare. In this case, MAS was subsidising AirAsia X by lifting its 50,000 passengers at fares below market fares and cater free food for them when they don’t get free food in AirAsia X and the extra free 10 kg baggage allowance under MAS.
The time has come for you to go. please go fast unless you want to leave in DISGRACE like Danny the Nanny!
AJ, you are no longer fit to head MAS period. Those were appointed by you are also not fit to be in MAS including the Hollywood and Bollywood, the Spin Dr and Fat Biscuit Lady!.
So an “intensive advertising programme to build the Malaysia Airlines’ brand” has also dented the airline’s finances ? What brand ? What message ? What is the “brand” trying to convey with a flurry of people, including a pregnant mum carrying suitcases?? My daughter asked me if MAS was promoting used suitcases. Come on, if you want to recoup your advertising spend, clear the baggage mindset and the garbled tagline.
And as for that statement “…MAS has “widened its network footprint and thickened its reach ….”, what does it all mean ?
Ayo yo malu malu malu bah!!!!
Resign resign resign bah! LOL
AJ and the gang should learn from Ethiopian Airlines, which maintains an almost uninterrupted record of profitability since its inception despite having feced all those unfavourable external factors just like what any other airline is facing – high and volatile fuel price, Europe recession, stiff competition especially from ever-booming Gulf-based carriers, amongst others. Add in the bureaucracy problems and high airport tax common throughout Africa – Ethiopian’s regional base. Ethiopian Airlines is also said to have remained profitable EVEN during the height of the nation’s civil war and great famine in 1980s. It’s also being dubbed as “a capitalist success in the marxist Ethiopia”. AJ should really learn something from this.
http://www.africanglobe.net/business/ethiopian-airlines-record-high-profit-2-7-billion-birr/
http://www.webcitation.org/6JkNtKaUC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines
Don’t expect AJ to learn
Yes, for Tony F definitely !
It’s obvious – close down MAS and rebuild.
That way you’ll kill costs from deadweight – from management to bottom feeders (of which there are many, some of which are probably browsing this site instead of working) who came to work at 9, spend a majority of their time in the cafe, then promptly leaving before 5.30 all the while collecting their 7.5% increment every year without fail. It’s these viruses which have infected MAS and is rotten to the core. Of course they wouldn’t blame themselves but would play the finger pointing game which is clearly so evident here.
A new MAS would mean a new way of doing business, from investing in upgraded infrastructures like revamping the antiquated Internet Booking Engine, new Business/First Class seats that’s fully flat on all aircraft & better offerings all around.
It worked for Japan Airlines, why wouldn’t it work for MAS?
the highest in business class fares .. the most deplorable/unworthy foods served .. ie SUCKS BIG TIME and sucking into One World does not help them to boost their travelers instead chasing the regulars to opt for another carrier .. CHEAPER AND EASIER TO GET SEAT!! btw those over size smelly Australian / Americans or whatever should be bath and clean up before boarding and please do measure their alcohol level while at it …. kbaii MAS shoved those gold and platinum up ur arse ..
Recently took an MAS flight. It started with ‘sorry our take off is delayed’. During the flight ‘sorry your seat is unable to recline, sorry something wrong with it’, during meal time ‘sorry we are only able to offer you this two choices of drinks’, ‘sorry you cant use the WC on this row as something wrong’, before landing ‘sorry for the late arrival’
Please change MAS name to ‘Sorry Airlines’
Dunleavy and Kutty have both moved over to Qatar Airways and have embarked on exactly the same strategy of slashing fares to increase passenger numbers, seemingly totally ignoring yield and playing right into the hands of the large agents. Qatar Airlines is walking into disaster. These 2 muppets seem intent on bringing down big airlines 1 at a time.