YOURSAY ‘MAHB should refund airport tax to all affected passengers.’
Chaos at LCCT as more than a thousand stuck
Haveagreatday: Whatever bad blood between MAHB (Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd) and AirAsia, the innocent passengers should not be used as punching bags.
Shame on MAHB and the Immigration Department for being so callous to the welfare of the passengers.
CYK: Malaysia's reputation has already suffered enough over the handling of the MH370 tragedy. And now this. For such incompetence, the Immigration chief has to take responsibility and resign.
Chitra-ngada-: Government-linked bodies like MAHB and government departments like Immigration do not feel that they owe any explanation to paying customers and taxpayers respectively, although the reason for their existence is to serve.
This government is not accountable nor responsible and will do everything to stay in power. They have no clue what the role of government is. They only know how to enrich themselves at the expense of the rakyat no matter how many lives are lost (MH370, bus accidents).
As their focus is to enrich themselves, they are not bothered to learn from other incidents, analyse and put in place corrective and preventive actions that would prevent the recurrence of similar incidents in the future.
Iiiizzzziiii: Malaysia has done it again. A simple relocation exercise from LCCT to KLIA2 turned into a nightmare.
Perhaps the Malaysia airport authorities are too eager to achieve developed nation by 2020 that they have neglected to build a proper foundation for the country to take off.
Frankly, I have no idea what is going to happen by 2020, but I do know Malaysia will not achieve developed nation status.
Alicescat: This is what happens when meritocracy is discounted, accountability dismissed and responsibility disregarded. We descent into total chaos. And this is just LCCT. I am disgusted.
Swipenter: "One VIP was allowed to pass through with his family resulting in shouts from others. People were screaming, 'We are taxpayers, too!'"
The same scene is repeated everyday on our clogged roads and highways. Those VIPs in their limos with their outriders flashing their blue lights sometimes with horns blaring at us to get out of the way for them to breeze through the jams.
Doesn't that get you pissed (but never with an ambulance rushing to the scene of an accident or getting someone to the hospital for treatment).
Yes, we are taxpayers too. Vote the corrupt Umno Baru-BN in and you get to taste their arrogance and self-importance.
Abasir: Does anyone remember who it was who pushed for this ketuanan-tailored chaos to happen, who described AirAsia's well-grounded refusal to the move to KLIA2 as "arrogance"?
And does anyone expect the titled idiots who run this country to take responsibility for this disaster? Which SOP (standard operating procedure) was that "promoted-out-of-turn" Aloyah Mamat following?
Onyourtoes: Seriously, I just don't understand why the rakyat have to go through all these baloney simply because they are moving to a new airport.
I think AirAsia, the airport authority and the Immigration Department are equally culpable and have no respect for the welfare of the passengers.
All of them have big ego and are unwilling to resolve issues that are likely to emerge during the transition. This is unacceptable. I think someone must sue.
Open Minded: AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes, you have the most flights and it would have definitely helped if you were there to ensure your passengers some kind of consolation for their predicaments.
This is what we call leadership and responsibility rather than pointing fingers, though no fault of yours. At least, it would have greatly contributed to easing the tension and frustration.
Odin: Tony Fernandes, give each of those key fellows a couple of hundred thousand on the quiet, and "semua bisa di atur".
Not Confused: This is not a new occurrence. I'm a foreigner and returned to LCCT from Bangkok a few months ago and whilst there ware not quite as many passengers queuing as on Sunday, it was probably a few hundred.
Once again, there were only two counters open for foreign passengers and there was little or no interest in the growing number of passengers queuing, no Immigration management in sight, and no air conditioning either.
Malaysia is years away from becoming an acceptable international air hub. LCCT is an utter disgrace and has been for a few years now (I know KLIA2 is about to open but I doubt it will meet acceptable standards after a short while).
Similarly, KLIA itself is little more than a big while elephant since it always virtually empty and devoid of passengers. It is also infested with many taxi touts who seem to care nothing for the RM50,000 fine that is supposed to be levied on such so-called illegal activities.
Malaysia is becoming another Nigeria.
Bluemountains: First world infrastructure but third world mentality. The persons in charge should be sacked and MAHB should refund airport tax to all affected passengers.
The country's reputation is at stake. We are always messing up things because incompetent people are appointed to high positions. It is very obvious that merit is not the criterion for selecting people to hold important posts.
Gen2: First they built LCCT like a bus station fit for second-class citizens even though we pay taxes. The 'low cost' is the low airline fares. It should not be equated to receiving low quality service or facilities from the government agencies responsible.
Now they refuse to provide service according to their own operating standards. This is coming to you from a government that claims to have the rakyat's interest at heart.
Anonymous_3e86: Can all of the passengers claim back their airport taxes? That would only be fair, right?
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