Isnin, 28 November 2011

Comments for Wee Choo Keong

Comments for Wee Choo Keong

Comment on Singaporeans & Africans misused of Social Pass / Student Visa will face fine, imprisonment and/or deportation by Orang Lereh

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 02:48 AM PST

Dear YB,
Thank you and congrats to you for bringing this issue in the parliament. However, I believe the enforcement is slightly lacking in terms of foreign workers and/or visitors social pass or student visa. Take a look at massage parlours, karaoke centres etc. There seems to be an influx of China dolls.

Chow Kit Road is infested with Nepalese, Myanmarese, Bangladeshis traders who use local licence. How they got to use them? We need to look into DBKL licensing dept.

Lim Kok Wing University, particularly in Cyberjaya, has African students, more than our locals. There are cases of rape, date rape, drugs abuse among students and disciplinary problems. Lots of cases went unreported.

YB, we need to contain the influx of foreigners, especially from 3rd world countries. Otherwise, Malaysia will be a pariah country soon.

I don’t mind foreigners who come here to do honest business or work. But if they are the ones who cause a lot of problems, we need to do something.

Orang Lereh

Comment on MAS has been saved by the corp GURU? by Olek Skilgannon

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 12:53 AM PST

All these commentators appear to have little or no knowledge of how the airline industry operates.

To paraphrase the words of a former Big Boss of IATA, the airline industry is the only one that operates on razor-thin margins with little room for error.

If you can’t be profitable, what do you do? Cut off the bleeding or restructure, cut costs and try and get back into profitability?

If MAS were asked to do an honest accounting, with a proper allocation of direct costs and overheads, just how many of the “national service” domestic routes within Malaysia are profitable?

Is, say, JB-KL profitable? KL-Penang? JB-KK? KL-Kuching?

If the domestic routes are not profitable, why should MAS, or any other airline, operate them? It’s not like as if it’s running a charity!

A Malaysian public who have grown blase with a continued regime of subsidies demands “cheap” water, electricity, road tolls, bus fares and air fares, regardless of commercial realities.

The government may as well be upfront about it, nationalise MAS and make it a unit of the Civil Aviation Department. That way, it can carry on subsidising to it’s heart’s content.

It’s just too bad that the Boeing and Airbus aircraft manufacturers of this world are governed by the profit motive and not by woolly-headed sentimentality masquerading as “national service”. As too the fact that Malaysian pilots, flight engineers and aircraft engineers and technicians are internationally mobile and are little motivated by the calls to “national service” when there’s big bucks to be made working for the likes of Emirates and Qatar Airways!.

Comment on MH = “MARUAH HILANG” & “MUSNAH HARAPAN”! by Olek Skilgannon

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 12:31 AM PST

Ilham Putera

I would venture to say that your comments are lacking in logic.

In the first place, what business has the Sabah Chief Minister got in demanding that MAS maintain a hub at Kota Kinabalu Airport? How will this hub be profitable, given the population of Sabah, the fact that Sarawak has it’s own “hub” at Kuching Airport plus the fact that Bandar Seri Begawan is well-served by Royal Brunei Airlines?

Does Sabah have a critical mass of business travellers and companies that would justify airlines to maintain full service (First and Business Classes) out of KK Airport or does it rely on the tourist traffic (read Economy Class travel and low-cost carriers)?

Second, MAs got into deep s**t long before AirAsia appeared on the horizon. Cast your mind back to the days when MAS first came into being and cross-reference it’s profits and losses against the regimes of it’s Managing Directors/Chief Executives from Day 1. When, exactly, did the rot in MAS set in?

Third, you seem to imply that MAS staff are somehow (by government fiat, maybe) immune from the realities of competition, efficiency, productivity, cost controls and the need to make profits as well as the need for regular fleet renewals .

Is it that big a deal if MAS disappears from the industry map? The famous Pan American Airlines has long disappeared from the scene in the US and no one sheds a tear for it. The iconic United Airlines (“come fly the friendly skies”) has merged with Continental Airlines; Northwest Airlines has been taken over by Delta Airlines, British Airways has merged with Spain’s Iberia, there is the Air France-KLM grouping etc. What should matter to the Malaysian public is that they have access to reliable and efficient air transport services, whether it be provided by MAS, AirAsia, SIA or any other airline out there that finds it worth it’s while to operate flights to Malaysian airports.

The Malaysian government simply cannot afford a bottomless purse to bail out MAS and keep it going, not when it is already spending RM30 billion+ annually in subsidies and when jet fuel prices show little inclination to come down.

Already, the Malaysian stage bus operators are asking the government to bail them out and nationalise the stage bus sector with the explicit threat that they will cease operations and leave the rakyat stranded. How did the bus operators get into this mess? By ever-increasing fuel costs and mandated government controls on bus fares, thus directly impacting their profitablity.

Fourth, if the Malaysian government had a clearly articulated national aviation policy in place, some of these questions wouldn’t be asked now. Like are we really prepared for the advent of Asean Open Skies in 2015 and the possible liberalisation of air transport in the Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement? It is no accident that there are currently more than 200 weekly flights between Singapore’s Changi Airport and cities in India and more than 300 weekly flights between Changi and cities in China. That’s connectivity, and that is why increasing numbers of Malaysians choose to fly out of Changi to their overseas destinations.

Comment on Issues for your MP by zany

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 11:56 PM PST

the garbage area is just directly oposite the cyber cafe of V2 (infront of metroview ) the garbage can be seen from the main road & it is just beside block B2, can you please kindly help us settle the garbage problem as soon as possible? we can even smell it from block B1 & it is really disgusting since flies & mosquitoes are all over

Comment on Issues for your MP by weechookeong

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 08:50 PM PST

Dear Zany,

Alam Flora is responsible for rubbish collection but for flats/apartment where there are JMB then it is the responsibility of the JMB to collect all the rubbish and put them to the rumah sampan. Alam Flora will collect the rubbish from the rumah sampah. Please let us know the exact location complained of or please call my personal assistant, En Yakob, at 41433322 or 0122186929. we will do our best to assist.

Thank you.

With kindest regards

wee choo keong

Comment on Issues for your MP by zany

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 08:35 PM PST

can i know who is the person incharge for the rubbish collection in wangsa maju section 2? The rubbish just left there whitout aby collection and now awful smell is all around as as soon as we open our front door. Can somebody please incharge of this? This is a serious issue. Thanks

Comment on MH = “MARUAH HILANG” & “MUSNAH HARAPAN”! by Ilham Putera

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:04 PM PST

YB Wee CK,
I am compelled to write here since you seem to be working on the issue of the secret share swap between MAS/AA. It was indeed a sad decision made secretly by Khazanah and it leaves very small room in our mind that believes that it was done with the objective of trying to save MAS. The bigger portion of my mind is saying that the people of Khazanah are in the pockets of you know who.
As former staff of MAS, it hurts to the deepest of my heart that such a silly solutions was put in place as if the whole citizen has lost its senses.
I read with keen interest, an article by Dato A. Kadir Jasin on this matter and would like to share with you of a little bit of what I know of the goings on MAS. However the smart & arrogant Rashdan (Danny) has definitely coin up something that would further put MAS in deeper shit so that it would look so bad so much so that trimming down MAS is inevitable. Hence the only word in his vocabulary now CUT CAPACITY.
When he proceeded terminate Kota Kinabalu hub, he does that blatantly in disregards to the wishes of CM of Sabah who has personally told MAS not to proceed with terminating the hub. Apparently he even said that nobody could stop him including the PM. I can't help it to recall the arrogance of the 4th floor during the worst regime in Malaysian history.
I was made to understand that, the ex-Kota Kinabalu international sectors, which include Haneda, Seoul and Taipei, has been developed and gaining momentum among travelers with good support from the Travel Agents. However, this sectors has so much potentials that it salivates AA and Danny just could wait to give it to AA. AA 'x' needs these lucrative routes to pad up their impending IPO so that they would get good rating from investors. So, Danny and the owners of AA would be laughing their way to the bank after the IPO.
Why worry if MAS's losses go deeper in the red? That would justify AA 'x' to take over MAS and make it their company and Malaysia will be without National Airline very soon. And according to my source, this would happen by middle of next year if not April 2012.
Danny's next agenda is that, the same will befall on FY Turbo-prop operation out of Subang. In one of the coming Board meetings, Danny will present a paper to say that MAS should just focus on Short-haul & Long-haul and not be distracted by FY operations, hence it would be wind-up. Whalla, Subang is all for Caterham jet to take over without hassle as MOT is also being pocketed by the red indian we all are talking about here.
Subsequent action by Danny will be their plan to move the staff to KLIA. This is within their impending plan to set-up a separate entity and split up current MAS structure. A newco will be created to handle the Short-haul while the long-haul operations will be made to bleed and eventually taken over by AA 'x' by keeping the MAS brand in namesake but fully-owned by AA 'x'. this is the theory that AA has in mind and Danny is seriously working to make it happen soonest. As for AJ, he will only collect his salary every month for as long as he can before MAS goes under.
So, staff of MAS, be ready for VSS soon or continue employment under the newco with new terms and conditions and definitely without union anymore.
Conclusions are;
 Danny is not interested in fixing the financial bleed of MAS.
 Danny will make MAS goes further below water with no intention of fixing it as fixing it is not in line with AA survival plan.
 Danny will strategise that MAS could no longer make profit on Long-haul and has to give away to AA
 Danny will champion AA taking over MAS Long-haul and Caterham Jet will take off.
 Danny will be happy to be able to make MAS disappear from the industry map.
 Danny will make Malaysia known to the world as a country whose main airline is owned by red Indian.
 Danny will put the blame on the incompetent senior staff of MAS who has been with company for umpteen years.
 Danny will get a pat on the back for helping red Indian make his dream with big bonus.

God bless MAS

Comment on MH = “MARUAH HILANG” & “MUSNAH HARAPAN”! by Olek Skilgannon

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:06 PM PST

Mr Wee

The hard and unpalatable truth, which you are seemingly unwilling to accept, is that it’s not Tony Fernandes and AirAsia/AirAsia X that is MAS’s “enemy”.

Whatever problems that MAS has gotten into in the past and now, it’s done all by itself.

You can trace MAS’s history back to the days of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA) and the splitting of MSA into MAS and SIA. What were the Malaysian team that negotiated with their Singapore counterparts on the splitting of MSA doing, and did they, then, even consider the long-term implications of what they agreed to?

The MAS unions and loyalists labour under the notion that MAS’s national flag carrier status is sacrosanct and everything else, commercial and business considerations included, should play second fiddle.

This notion has even permeated into the top echelons of Malaysian Airports Bhd (MAHB) and it’s plans for KL International Airport (KLIA).

The name of the game for airports that aspire to be true regional air hubs is traffic, passengers, transit traffic and connectivity. This is the game that Changi Airport and Hong Kong International Airport have both played masterfully, and where the mega Gulf airports in Dubai and Qatar are fast catching up.

Dr Mahathir pushed through the building of KLIA with the philosophy “build it and they (airlines and passengers) will come”. Unfortunately for Dr Mahathir, most airlines are run on hardheaded commercial principles where profitability is a paramount objective.

In Singapore, the government, from day 1, hewed to the philosophy that Changi’s air hub status is of primary importance, and the wellbeing of SIA only secondary. Thus, the Singapore government was (and is) very liberal in granting air traffic rights to foreign airlines (both through bilateral air services agreements and numerous “open skies” agreements). This is their national aviation policy.

If you look at Changi Airport, SIA and it’s regional unit SilkAir account for about 30 per cent of Changi’s connectivity and passenger volumes. The low-cost carriers (Singapore-based Tiger Airways and Jetstar Asia, as well as AirAsia and it’s Indonesian and Thai units, plus low-cost carriers from Indonesia, Philippines and India) account for maybe another 30 per cent.

But, also for Changi, British Airways and Qantas (both of which have hubs there) account for 10-15 per cent of Changi’s traffic and connectivity.

Didn’t both Britiish Airways and Qantas stop operating flights to KL back in the day? Surely, it is ironical that Malaysians wanting to fly on BA or QF will have to travel to Changi Airport in order to do so.

AirAsia and AirAsia X have the potential to be “game changers” in this race between airports in the region to build up connectivity, transit traffic and passenger volumes. Thus far, Changi, Hong Kong and even Bangkok are way ahead of KLIA as far as these numbers are concerned.

MAS was supposed to be the “heavy lifter” for KLIA. It was supposed to bring in substantial volumes of passengers and transit traffic that would, in turn, attract other major airlines to fly to KLIA. This has not happened. It is glaringly obvious that all full service airlines, and most low-cost carriers, would prefer to operate flights to Changi than to KLIA.

Why don’t you ask MAHB management for a reasoned explanation of just why this is so?

As a fairly frequent flyer myself, I am aware of what makes a great airport and a great airline, instead of being just merely good. It is sad to admit that the Changi/SIA combo have managed to get it mostly right, with a supporting cast of other full service carriers that operate out of Changi.

KLIA/MAS? Still waiting for the numbers to make sense!

Comment on MH = “MARUAH HILANG” & “MUSNAH HARAPAN”! by Ex-MAS Staff

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 04:55 PM PST

Kunyit Hidup,

I urge you to get your facts right first before you post and your postings are factually incorrect.

1. The Company Share option scheme is a sick joke by Idris Jala. MAS Senior Management could BUY the shares at high offer price and given the plunge in share price, none took up the offer because it ended up them having to pay for something that is of lower value than what they pay.

2. There was no Toyota, BMW or Merc scheme. MAS Senior Management was given a fixed allowance to buy any car they want. If the price of the car was above the allowance, the Snr Manager had to top up out of their own pocket. The annual car maintenance allowance is based on claims up to an annual fixed limit irrespective of the car. This has been proven to be more financially beneficial to the Company buying and replacing the cars every 5 years.

3. I dont believe there were any “thousand-and-one incentives/entitlements enjoyed by this group.

4. There were no “20 years better” perks for the new kuncu2 brought in because MAS is limited by what it can do to whetever that is there already.

5. It was not First Class travel for the whole family. In fact, the annual 1st Class travel for MAS managers and above was there since MAS was first formed. It was withdrawn and many Snr Management gets Business Class only once a year.

6. Medical expenses are not unlimited. The amount is limited to Asunta rates.

7. What Golden handshake? I know of many who retired with just a good by.

8. There was the Long Service award nite long even after Tan Seri Aziz. I believe there was one during the Tajudin era and Nor Amiruddin was the Head of HR. I got mine.

9. Calendars were produced right until a few years ago.

10. There were no perks or benefits to staff that were taken away.

11. MAS has always given out something to the staff, bonusses when the Company is doing well and ex-gratia when the Company is not doing well.

12. The MAS Snr Management did not have any pay revision or increment for almost 5 years, whilst the managers, executives and graded staff continue to enjoy their annual increment and bonusses even when the company was not doing well. That is the reason why many do not want to become senior management. In fact the ceiling for Managers is higher than the “gaji yang dah mati” for Snr Management.

13. MAS staff (other than Snr Management) have always had a an upward pay revision with every collective agreement negotiation based on the Company’s ability to pay and the increase in the cost of living.

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