Sejak dua tiga bulan ini MAS nampaknya bergolak di awang-awangan. Terdapat kabar angin CEO nya akan di tukar tetapi dinafikan kemudian. Lapuran Auditor General baru-baru ini seperti memberi tamparan kepada MAS. (Rujuk Rencana KM2: No 3110: - Swissair nafi dan Lapuran AG)

Rakan kerja Ling memberitahu Dow Jones bahawa lapuran akhbar Business Times tidak tepat.

Begitulah jadinya sebuah syarikat penerbangan yang "dihadiahkan" kepada Tajuddin Ramli. Ketika itu dia senyum gembira. Kini harapan itu kelihatan mula berkecai satu persatu. Swissair manafikan ia berminat. Qantas diketemu tetapi ada sesuatu kurang setuju.

PM:
membuka ruang membenarkan pelaburan asing ke dalam MAS ditingkatkan dari% 30 ke 40%. Hari berikutnya beberapa akhbar menyiarkan "MAS For Sale".

Daim:
Turut menyentuh beberapa aspek untuk membangunkan industri kroni "tersayang" yang terbang. Namun begitu dia terlupa kenaikkan harga minyak tempoh hari turut menjunamkan penerbangan MAS.

"The Government has also allowed foreign equity participation in the nation's airline as well as the national car industry." (Budget 2001)

Kadir Syeikh Fadhir:
Iklan melancung dimasjid???

MAS DAN SAKITNYA

Kini MAS berhutang RM2 billion (Rujuk KM2: 3028 MAS untuk dijual..

Saya kira Muhyiddin sepatutnya mengenakan sesuatu hukuman kepada MASKargo, jika benar beliau perihatin masalah kenaikkan harga. Ini bukan sebarang naik - ia naik dua KALI GANDA! Jangan Muhyiddin berpura-pura buta pula.....

Kesian Tajuddin Ramli... sudah jadi bini kedua ke? (Rujuk Rencana KM2: No 2997 Hubungan TRI Longgar ehsan AsiaWeek)

KADAR MASKARGO UMPAMA 'ROMPAKKAN SIANG HARI'

KL AFP: Syarikat2 pengangkutan barang udara menyifatkan kos punggahan yang meningkat dua kali ganda di KLIA sebagai rompakkan di siang hari. Sekaligus ini memalapkan lagi harapan untuk menjadikan KLIA satu pusat kargo serantau.

MASKargo Sdn Bhd, mengenakan kadar dua kali ganda di KLIA kepada 20sen/kg dan harga minima RM20. Sebelum itu kadarnya 10sen/kg dan harga minima RM10 sahaja.

MASKargo merupakan anak-syarikat MAS. Ia turut menaikan kos surcaj dari 38sen/kg kepada 57sen/kg untuk semua ekspot, kecuali ke Singapura dan Jepun.

Menurut Walter Culas, pengerusi Persatuan Pemunggah Udara Barang Malaysia, kenaikan tersebut tidak wajar kerana servis (perkhidmatan) kargo di KLIA masih teruk.

"Ini rompakkan siang hari" katanya.

"Tahap servis di KLIA adalah dibawah jangkaan semua. Kompleks kargonya baik tetapi ia tidak diatur dan diuruskan dengan sempurna. Perkhidmatannya tidak cekap dan dan tidak boleh diharapkan pada masa kini",

"Kami tidak dapat mengawal sebarang ahli kami jika mereka mengambil keputusan untuk beroperasi di Singapura sahaja."

Singapura idak mengenakan caj terminal. Hnya Hong Kong, Thailand dan Malaysia sajalah yang mengamalkan caj terminal itu.

Malaysia amat berharap lapangan terbang KLIA yang bernillai RM9 billion itu menjadi pusat penerbangan serantau penumpang dan kargo.

Namun demikian, pada bulan lepas British Airways mengumumkan ia akan menghentikan operasi KL-London mulai April depan. Ia merupakan syarikat ke tiga meninggalkan KLIA yang terletak 30km dari selatan KL.

- TJ Kapal Berita -

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Thursday, November 2 10:49 AM SGT

MARKET TALK-SG-KL: No New Malaysian Air CEO, Says Min

1049 [Dow Jones] MALAYSIA: Malaysian Airline System (3786) shares likely lower after ministry official said Transport Minister Ling denied local newspaper report Thursday quoting him as saying the airline will soon get a new chief executive officer and chairman. "According to him (Ling), he didn't say it," a Ling aide tells Dow Jones, adding that the Business Times report was incorrect. Malaysian Air shares now up 3% at MYR3.42.(VGB)

http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html? s=singapore/headlines/001101/asia/afp/ Malaysia_cargo_forwarders_say_KL_rates_rises_is__daylight_robbery_.html

Wednesday, November 1 4:10 PM SGT

Malaysia cargo forwarders say KL rates rises is "daylight robbery"

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 (AFP) -

Malaysian airfreight forwarders Wednesday described the doubling of handling charges at Kuala Lumpur airport as "daylight robbery" and said it dimmed hopes of making the airport a regional cargo hub.

MASKargo Sdn. Bhd. doubled rates for cargo uplift at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to 0.20 ringgit (five cents) a kilogram and the minimum charge to 20 ringgit from Wednesday, up from 0.10 ringgit a kg and a minimum of 10 ringgit previously.

MASKargo, a unit of national carrier Malaysia Airlines, also increased the fuel surcharge from 0.38 ringgit to 0.57 a kg for all exports, except for those to Singapore and Japan.

Walter Culas, chairman of the Airfreight Forwarders Association Malaysia, said the increases were unjustifiable as cargo services at KLIA remained poor.

"This is daylight robbery," he told AFP.

"Service standards at the KLIA are far below expectations. There is a good cargo complex but it is not run and managed properly. Services are not efficient and unreliable at the moment."

Culas said MASKargo stands to lose half of its business with the new rates. "We will not stop any of our members if they decide to shift to Singapore."

He said the hefty increases would make KLIA "very uncompetitive" and dampened hopes of it becoming a regional cargo hub.

Singapore does not impose terminal charges, he said, adding that Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia were the only cargo hubs in the world to adopt such a practice.

Culas also criticised MASKargo for a flip-flop in its decision.

The Business Times quoted a MASKargo circular issued Tuesday as saying that the terminal charge increase at KLIA and the Penang airport up north has been deferred to next January.

But Culas said MASKargo issued a second circular on the same day, announcing it was only deferring increases at Penang airport but that rates at KLIA would rise as of Wednesday.

"They are confusing the whole industry. This is very unprofessional," he added.

MASKargo officials could not be reached for comments.

On the higher fuel surcharge, Culas said it should have applied only for general cargo and according to destination, instead of an across the board raise.

The association's 125 members disagreed with the increases in cargo rates and would submit an official protest to the government, he added.

Malaysia hopes to turn the nine-billion-ringgit (2.4 billion dollar) futuristic KLIA, which opened in June 1998, into a key regional aviation and cargo gateway.

But it suffered a blow last month when British Airways announced it would suspend its Kuala Lumpur-London route from next April. It will become the third airline to withdraw from KLIA, located 50 km (31 miles) south of Kuala Lumpur.