Last Friday, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz was in a news. After in attendance Angkasa's 41st celebration, she done comment about open sky policy.
She used a opportunity to earn her keeps as Chairman of Air Asia-X to insist a virtues of stability a partnership in between Air Middle East as well as MAS. On May 2nd, MAS as well as Air Middle East had called off a share barter in between Tune Air as well as Khazanah in to any alternative as well as will start money injection via special issue for Air Asia-X.
Rafidah explained which all airlines will face foe when a Asean open sky routine is enforced in 2015.
Thus, she reiterated prior statements after a share barter was called off, to justify partnership in between MAS as well as Air Middle East in slicing cost. Among alternative things, few areas were suggested; namely procurement, aircraft part of repairs, precision initiatives as well as technical as well as operational efficiency.
She is articulate as yet people in a Airline attention have been not wakeful of open sky as well as as yet a open is not wakeful of Air Asia's unscrupulous hands inside MAS.
While Rafidah ! was admi red as Minister upon trade counts then, looks similar to she seemed to be losing grips as well as being repetitive similar to a little senile aged folks. Has she gone off her rockers?
Collaboration?
Read The Star inform upon Rafidah below:
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Friday May 11, 2012
Rafidah: AirAsia, AirAsia X, MAS partnership crucial
PETALING JAYA(Bernama): All airlines in a country contingency be equates to to face challenges when a Asean open ! sky rout ine comes in to force in 2015 as well as therefore, partnership efforts in between AirAsia, AirAsia X as well as Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is important, said AirAsia X chairman Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz.
"If airlines do not make firm now, by what ever way, there will be problems. This is why AirAsia as well as AirAsia X is peaceful to continue seeking during possible partnership with MAS," she said upon Friday.
She emphasised which a partnership had zero to do with a share-swap.
"It is about slicing price so which we can pass a efficiencies to consumers. We have concluded during a house turn to sign a chit of understanding (MOU) to continue posterior this partnership as long as it does not violate any anti-trust law globally as well as bring benefits to us," she told a press conference after a Malaysian National Co-operative Movement (Angkasa)'s 41st celebration.
Following a reversal of a share barter deal, AirAsia, AirAsia X Sdn Bhd as well as MAS, have entered in to a supplemental partnership agreement (SA) to explore areas of mutual-need to realise assets as well as boost efficien! cies.
The SA would focus upon specific areas of partnership whilst continue to imitate with all applicable anti-trust laws.
Under a SA, a airlines have identified key areas for collaboration, which would result in efficiencies as well as price savings, which among others, includes procurement, aircraft part of repairs, precision initiatives as well as technical as well as operational efficiency.
Additionally, a airlines will additionally continue working to further identify as well as evaluate opportunities to combine upon a extended range of areas both during operational as well as strategic levels.
To push forward with a partnership initiative, a three parties additionally signed a MOU to cooperate upon dual primary areas, joint shopping as well as aircraft part of maintenance, await as well as repair services.
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Out of Touch
Few things contingency be clarified.
Firstly, no one would hold Air Middle East would pass off good to their consumers.
If they can remit a airfield taxation due to Government they have picked up from consumers, cut a fingers similar to a deviant Yakuza which Air Middle East is endangered for their consumer.
Otherwise, they would not design their routine to have passengers wait for additional one hour as well as a half as well as cancel flights during will.
Secondly, a concern of Air Middle East is for price though MAS's business importance is about raising revenue.
This equates to which a area of slicing price upon procurement, aircraft part of repairs, Engineering as well as precision initiatives is some-more for Air Middle East benefit.
Thirdly, Rafidah is no some-more a Minister though as Chairperson of Air Middle East X, she is under a payroll of Tony F.
Left aside have been a questions she raised upon a Airline Rationalisation Policy in 2005. She does not action for a seductiveness of a nation though a miserly seductiveness of a slimy Tony F.
Talking about open sky routine as well as CCF indispensable to hope for for ASEAN Open Sky routine in 2015, what done a Government, outsider ! manageme nt in MAS, vultures of Air Middle East as well as all those who keep reminding of Open Sky Policy consider which people in MAS have been not wakeful of it?
Do they consider MAS has not been you do anything about it?
Ponder for a whilst to those who have been overawe with Air Middle East as well as their current boast of expansion as well as claims of unstoppable expansion in a future.
Whom will strive in such environment? Full use network airline or point to point LCC?
What is noticeable is which Air Middle East felt a outcome of MH actions? What a brand brand new management did in a last 6 months was to undo all a effort which have been put in place by MAS.
Perhaps, it is Air Middle East which is not rebuilt fo! r Open S ky Policy.
MAS do not need them for all those claimed collaboration. They will be joining a One World Alliance in 2012 as well as good immensely from a assorted program including:
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Since late 2002, Oneworld part of airlines have developed common specifications opposite their engineering as well as upkeep activities, reducing costs by bulk shopping as well as tools sharing. It was additionally a initial airline alliance to deliver interline e-ticketing opposite all part of airlines' network. - Extract fromOneworld - Wikipedia
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For Rafidah as well as all those articulate Open Sky Policy, they contingency be damn out of date as well as adjacent upon mania to keep repeating an aged story.
Open Sky
Open Sky is an international routine concept which calls for a liberalization of a rules as well as regulations of a international aviation industry, quite blurb aviation for a free-market airline industry.
It is fundamentally a bilateral as well as sometimes multilateral arrangement or agreement in between dual or some-more nations.
The United States have been posterior Open Skies agreements by bilateral agreement given 1979, as well as b! y 1982 h ad signed twenty-three bilateral air use agreements worldwide.
The initial unlimited alighting agreement was initial signed in between a US as well as Neatherland in 1992.
Although concluded upon an Open Sky for 2015 in 2009, a US signed a Multilateral Agreement upon a Liberalization of International Air Transportation (MALIAT) with Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, as well as Singapore as early as 2001.
It is rsther than old-fashioned for those articulate about Open Sky right away when it had been in discussion as well as in credentials given early 1990s.
Rafidah's mental recall contingency be failing her.
Virgin Group
For those which reme! mbered a assorted Code Sharing pursued by MAS throughout a 1990s, it was MAS's diversion to dig Airports with limited alighting as well as enlarge MAS magnitude in those sectors.
Back then, there were Airlines which had MAS "supplied" a aircraft for them to enlarge genius as well as magnitude to capacitate MAS to dig those market.
Rafidah wouldn't know. Tony F as well as his cronies destroying MAS from inside wouldn't know too.
Yours truly was monitoring a MAS opposite when it was making Code Sharing arrangements with KLM, Virgin Airlines, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines, British Midlands, etc.
Yes, Virgin Groups is one of a shareholders (16%) in Air Asia-X. Another is Robert Milton's ACE Aviation Holdings a primogenitor association of Air Canada.
From Wikipedia:
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AirAsia was determined in 1993 as well as began operations upon eighteen November 1996. It was creatively founded by a government-owned conglomerate, DRB-Hicom. On 2 Dec 2001 a heavily-indebted airline was paid for by former Time Warner senior manager Tony Fernandes's association Tune Air Sdn Bhd for a token total of one ringgit (about USD 0.26 during a time) with USD eleven million (MYR 40 million) value of debts. Fernandes turned a association around, producing a profit in 2002 as well as rising brand brand new routes from a hub in Kuala Lumpur, undercutting for! mer mono poly operator Malaysia Airlines with promotional fares as low as MYR 1 (USD 0.27).
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Not referred to was Tony tookover Air Middle East with RM70 million contract in hand.
Just similar to Air Middle East determined many Air Middle East bases in Asia, Virgin Airlines operates from assorted outfits similar to Virgin Atlantics, Virgin Blue, Virgin America, Virgin Australia, as well as Virgin Nigeria. All a Airline is place together in Virgin Airlines.
Singapore Airlines paid for 49% in to Virgin Group's Airline Holding Company with Virgin Group st! ill land 51% in 2000.
Is what's happening to MAS given a time of Tun Abdullah fit a certain picture as well as accusation opposite him? Khazanah should know or they pretend not to know these links.
Rafidah should know or has mania got a better of her?
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