YOURSAY | ‘This ‘Frankenstein’ airport may be far more intriguing than that other monster called 1MDB.’

Now everyone can cry

Cogito Ergo Sum: A low-cost carrier terminal that is over the budget. The people's cry is but an irritating buzz in the ear of the powers-that-be.

It's a wonder and an aeronautical miracle that AirAsia pilots can land and take off without incidents.

Dont Just Talk: As the Mandarin saying goes: “When the top is not straight, the bottom will be crooked.”

There are many opportunities in Bolehland to make easy money with the right connections and by working smart. Jho Low from Penang proved this.

Anonymous 568201438363345: Government inefficiency? Cost overruns by a few hundred percent? What's new? The rakyat will bear the cost.

GMK: This is called job creation. With more value added, the higher the sum of the contracts, the more to share.

Anonymous_40f4: The so-called professional consultants for KLIA2 should be held accountable.

They must have been paid hundreds of millions of ringgits in fees. Maybe they belong to the privileged upper-class who are untouchable.  

Abasir: Continue asking questions and Malaysians will soon realise that this "Frankenstein" airport is far more intriguing than that other monster called 1MDB.

Both, however, share a common raison d'etre - make money for the alleged scoundrels involved. Forget about putting the 'people first'.

Mafeeah: It looks like the earthworks alone went up by more than 20 times. What have ministers Salleh Said Keruak and Abdul Rahman Dahlan, the greatest defenders of Malaysia, have to say?

Kawak: Who bothers? After all, if the cabinet ministers, Umno division leaders and the BR1M receivers have received the dedak, everyone is happy.

Let the country go bankrupt and rot. Some may have already stacked their ill-gotten gains outside the country.

Existential Turd: There is really no need for confusion. It is a budget airline terminal because only budget airlines use it.

It is not a low-cost terminal because it costs more than twice the original estimate, which itself was already bloated.      

Rick Teo: Just tell us who got the KLIA2 contract and we will know why the cost escalated to RM4 billion.

The story is always the same. Someone becomes an overnight billionaire. If the KLIA2 project was openly tendered, the price could easily be halved.

Anonymous 57881434617666: Low-cost terminal or not, I kind of like KLIA2. It is a step up from LCCT and better than Senai.

Comfortable, plenty of seats and has reasonably decent public transport connection.

James_3392: They must change the "how much I spent is how much my customers have to pay eventually" mentality.

All government-linked companies (GLCs) have such mentality, but this is not business, this is extortion.

Anonymous_1371477558: Want accountability, vote BN. Want a clean government, vote BN. Want racial harmony, vote BN.

PPIM: Revocation of Rayani Air's licence a rash decision

Restless: It's an irony that the revoking of the air service licence (ASL), if an operator is deemed unfit to operate an airline, is being linked to compensation to aggrieved customers.

The owners are duty-bound to compensate and if they fail, there are other recourses. The owners can be taken to court, or the appropriate authorities approached.

If being syariah-compliant is the basis of the operation, the same should apply to their obligation to compensate. Well, if they don't, then you are thinking what I am thinking.

Rupert16: The decision to revoke Rayani Air's licence is the right one. Safety is more important than monetary losses. However, the decision to allow it to operate in the first place, was indeed the wrong one.

Since Rayani is syariah-compliant, the Malaysian Muslim Consumers Association (PPIM) should take the lead in suing Rayani Air and the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) in the Syariah Court, if it indeed cares for Muslims seeking refunds from Rayani Air.

HaveAGreatDay: Is there a win-win situation here, PPIM? The safety of the customers of Rayani Air ought to be paramount.

Yes, it is a mess now, but this is better than seeing the loss of lives before action is taken.

Anonymous_1371563774: Eventually, if planes drop from the sky, for whatever reason, then PPIM will ask: why didn't the government intervene much earlier?

Sabahan: Not revoking the licence will lead to even more misery for the employees and the public.

The employees will be owed even more in salaries, and the public duped into making more advance payments for future non-existent flights.

Xiao Zhu: PPIM, the safety of the aircraft or airline operation is paramount.

Blame the approving authorities that were blinded by the 'syariah-compliant' airline tag, the first in the world, without checking if this airline had the necessary competent manpower.

Rick Teo: The people who lost money on buying tickets, should blame themselves.

They wanted to fly with a syariah-compliant airline, and now can consider their loss as a syariah-compliant donation to a failed venture.

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