In MAHB vs AirAsia, comical for owner to blame tenant

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YOURSAY ‘MAHB, as KLIA2 builder, how can you be not responsible for its scope, cost and schedule?’

 

MAHB lays blame on AirAsia at PAC hearing

Not Smart: Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), stop blaming others before you take stock of yourself first.

 

MAHB cannot be any better than Malaysia Airlines (MAS), but maybe worse. Where is your staff of calibre to check and balance AirAsia's 'demands' for upscaling?

 

Why only now blame AirAsia when you could have controlled it at the earlier stage? Didn’t you ask AirAsia for justification for any upscaling? Can't MAHB do its own analysis/research on what is the appropriate scale for KLIA2?

 

MAHB's claim that AirAsia was the main reason for the cost/time overruns is absurd and only exposes MAHB's weakness in its management. How can a public-listed company with control on the project, lay the blame elsewhere for its own failure?

 

This is tantamount to gross negligence on its part but it now chooses to shift the blame. Any school kid can tell who is responsible for the mess and we don't need Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) views on the matter.

 

Saintonthego: You build it; you are responsible for the scope and the cost and of course the schedule. AirAsia can ask for the sky, yet you agree. Now you overrun your costs, go beyond your schedule and under deliver in terms of quality, you blame AirAsia.

 

What sort of project management is this? AirAsia is only a major tenant, not the owner.

 

Wira: The builder is blaming the customer for his cost overruns. This is so comical. Please tell Malaysia who has ownership of this project?

 

Progressive: Is there a safety issue here? In the haste to meet the much delayed opening deadline, are we putting aircraft and passenger safety on the line? The premier says he is looking into it . I hope there will be no compromise on safety.

 

Takeiteasy: Don't tell me that before you start your project, you do not make a proper study with suggestions taken from various concerned parties and come out with a master plan. This is not like changing clothes.

 

Anonymous #85701391: Actually, this is a simple issue. All that is required is for MAHB together with the Umno-BN government to instruct MNRB (which runs Malaysian Reinsurance Berhad), and Bank Negara Malaysia to issue a blanket insurance policy to AirAsia.

This is to guarantee AirAsia that MAHB and the government shall be responsible for all losses arising from damage to aircraft, loss of use, bodily injuries to staff, passengers, including loss of profits arising from flight delays, takeoffs, delivery of ground services, etc.

 

Then AirAsia's fears are gone, right? MAHB maintains its stand that airport, runways, etc,  are all 101 percent real world standards, not Malaysia Umno/MCA cronies standards. Issue solved.

 

Fateh: The ruling elites are saints who can do no wrong; any mistake is caused by others. No wonder the rakyat have to pay more and more for everything.

 

Justice Pao: Budgeted at RM1.6 billion, cost overruns to RM5 billion, and then blame AirAsia for building an airport that can handle the Airbus A380. A budget Airbus A380?

 

PAC chairperson Nur Jazlan Mohamed must be really dense to say that the tenants wanted a luxury airport and airplanes.

 

Sodom Me Sodom You: Of course in Bolehland, the landlord doubles the size and quadruples the cost based on what the tenant wants and then blames the tenant for asking for the sky.

 

Aren't you supposed to negotiate and agree beforehand on these things? You are not building a Lego toy, for crying out loud.

 

Haveagreatday: I am no apologist, nor spokesperson for AirAsia. But I never read any comments from AirAsia saying that the cracks on the runway cannot be rectified.

 

So, Nur Jazlan, do get your facts right. What is of concern seems to be that the repairs will be a recurrent nightmare.

 

Just look at the Bayan Lepas airport now, after so many millions spent, the driveway to the arrival hall gets flooded after a heavy downpour.

 

Yes, AirAsia is right to put its foot down - get the work right the first time rather than have the cracks as a recurrent nightmare.

 

It’s wonderful to blame AirAsia for the size of KLIA2 now. But who calls the shots - MAHB or AirAsia?

 

YUNoAnon: “Can be rectified?” So it is not done yet? It looks like AirAsia's concerns were justified then. You think patch-up jobs will solve the problems overnight?

 

And while their requests may have contributed to higher cost, this is long-term planning, like the baggage carousel. It is MAHB which insisted on using aerobridges and the Sita (airport management) system.

 

So really, who is the one that is increasing the costs and for whose benefit?

 

Thana55: AirAsia should buy space in all media (mainstream and digital) and state their case as clearly as they can to stop MAHB and PAC putting a 'spin' on the issue. Let the truth prevail.

 

Donplaypuks: If your tenant asks to build the Taj Mahal at an astronomical cost, you blindly go ahead?

 

Sheesh, this is shamelessly passing the buck. And have the cracks been rectified to normal international and aviation standards?

 

Armchair Newspaper: Blaming AirAsia for costs overrun, delay and mismanagement of KLIA2 by MAHB, an Umno crony company, and only now, is so pathetic.

 

The contract was awarded by the government as sweetheart deal and MAHB was given the wink to pillage, rob and rape its way to enrich itself and countless other cronies.

 

Bad Head: AirAsia, Indonesia or Thailand could be your next alternative base.

Many Malaysian businessmen have sold their businesses in Malaysia and invested in other countries with less red tape.


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