Thursday 12 January 2012

KNEE JERK REACTION BY SABAH AIR



PKR Supreme Council Member cum PKR Sabah Secretary, Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen questioned the sudden announcement of Sabah AIR Aviation Sdn Bhd on their three phase plan to serve both domestic and regional routes to take over MAS suspension flights. It sounded like a knee jerk reaction as a result of the public outcry that caused this announcement to happen.

Why is the so called ‘authorities’ concern is taking such a long time to proceed with the application? Why is the Transport Ministry has not stepped in immediately to work on the transition plan before the MAS international flights were suspended to Kota Kinabalu last month?

We have a Sabahan who is a Deputy Minister of Transport. To add salt into injury, the Sabah State government has a stake in MAS through WHSSB- are they too sleeping in their job? Why these matters were not planned for a proper transition for Sabah AIR Aviation Sdn Bhd to take over smoothly. This is liken to famous saying ‘Plan to Fail, Fail to Plan”.

In the meantime, Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) sudden suspension of International flights to Sabah is also causing increasing complains every day. Some small & medium size tourism related operators and companies have been issuing memos to staff of possible cutback of remunerations due to the potential loss of the income as a result of this suspension.

This is definitely a very sad way of ushering into the new year 2012 especially for the lower wage earners group. New school term is only a few days away, and working parents will have severe headache of balancing their expenses with the low wage they earn.

PKR Sabah hopes that these announcement is not just a quick way to pacify the public, a dateline must be given to the Rakyat of Sabah on filling in the vacuums left behind by MAS. Meanwhile, PKR Sabah urged that MAS to continue their International flights to Sabah and also to Sandakan until Sabah Air has fully filled in the vacuum. At least MAS has to fulfill their Corporate Social Responsibility to the Rakyat of Sabah.

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16 comments:

  1. Anak Sabah13 January 2012 at 11:57

    Untuk menjadikan SabahAir sebagai syarikat penerbangan bukanlah satu misi yang senang dan tidak mungkin boleh dilakukan dalam jarak masa yang pendek ini.

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    1. Anonymous13 January 2012 at 13:22

      memang benar tu..saya rasa perlu cari alternatif lain yang lebih baik.

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    2. Anonymous14 January 2012 at 10:46

      tapi, harap kita mmpu untuk membina syarikat penerbangan sendiri pada masa akan datang.

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  2. Anak Sabah13 January 2012 at 11:58

    Rakyat Sabah memerlukan cara penyelesaian yang cepat jika hendak menyelamatkan industri pelancongan kita buat masa ini.

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  3. DorianG13 January 2012 at 12:47

    It's still a long way to go for SabahAir to be on par with Mas or other major regional airline companies.

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  4. DorianG13 January 2012 at 12:49

    But on a positive note, at least SabahAir has step up to the plate to meet the demand of the tourism sector.

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  5. DorianG13 January 2012 at 12:50

    While this is to occur, there's no harm to extend invitation to other regional airlines to make up lost grounds after the cancelation of Mas to certain destinations

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    1. Anonymous13 January 2012 at 13:26

      thats right. should try to invite other regional airlines to replace MAS.

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    2. twenty1214 January 2012 at 10:54

      True. Invitation to other regional airlines, and at the same time Sabah Air must improve their service and quality.

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  6. Smookiekins16 January 2012 at 10:29

    Daripada complain lebih baik bagi cadangan bagaimana menyelesaikan isu tu. Sabah Air juga harus mempertingkatkan kualiti.

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  7. Kris Jr16 January 2012 at 10:30

    Harap Sabah Air mampu memikul tanggunjawab ni.

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  8. Unknown17 January 2012 at 09:52

    Teruskan usaha untuk memastikan penerbangan untuk Sabah akan terus mendapat sambutan dari penduduk Sabah.

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  9. Unknown17 January 2012 at 09:53

    Saya sokong apa pun cara bagi memastikan penerbangan di Sabah tidak terjejas dan pada masa yang sama juga memastikan perlancong akan mudah untuk datang ke Sabah.

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  10. nickko19 January 2012 at 09:04

    jika PKR boleh menjangkakan perkara ini akan berlaku, kenapa tidak bangkitkan isu ini sebelum MAS menghentikan penerbangan mereka?? kenapa tidak kemukakan cadangan lebih awal jika PKR mampu meramal atau menjangka apa yang akan berlaku terhadap MAS kelak??

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  11. nickko19 January 2012 at 09:07

    ketika PKR dan pembangkang2 lain sibuk menggunakan isu ini untuk menggambarkan kelemahan kerajaan, kerajaan negeri dan juga kementerian yang berkenaan telahpun tampil dengan alternatif lain bagi mengurangkan impak kesan dari keputusan MAS..

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