Star Online:
Dr M: Why did the US downgrade M'sia's civil aviation authority?
by MOHD FARHAAN SHAH
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Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the government also wanted to know the effect from such a downgrade but was confident it could be overcome.
"If they say we are not good or so on, (how is it) then (that) our Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is among the 20 biggest airports in the world.
"We've even been trusted to run the Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (ISGIA) in Turkey where it is not small as 31 million people use it," he added.
Told you Mahathir is NOT the brightest spark as many believe. He's only exceptional in Machiavellian politics and how to manipulate the races of Malaysia into divisive acrimony for his own personal interests.
Just what the Eff has SIZE of KL International Airport or the ISGIA in Turkey have to do with the competency-quality-reliability of the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM)?
As it was NOT possible to "audit" each & every foreign airline, the FAA reasons that if the respective foreign national regulatory authorities (eg CAAM) have in place good and sound safety structure, regulations, programs and competent staff (pilot inspectors, engineer inspectors, ATC inspectors, safety inspectors, etc), and diligently practise them well, their respective airlines would in all likelihood be reasonably safe as well.
Thus non-US airlines (eg. MAS, AirAsia, etc) which wish to have code-sharing arrangements arrangements with US airlines must be those whose respective national regulatory authorities (CAAM in Malaysia's case) have been "audited" by the FAA as reliable.
The USA (FAA) does NOT compel any nation to be subjected to its "audit" but if a particular national regulatory authority rejects or refuses the FAA's "audit", then the FAA would inform US-regulated airlines NOT to have code-sharing arrangements with the foreign airlines of that particular nation. The FAA would also advise American citizens that the national aviation regulatory authority of such and such a nation have NOT been "audited" and travel in its airlines may carry very high risk, with an advisory not to travel in them if possible.
The FAA "audit" is done periodically as all audits should be. My uncles who know people in the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) affirm such an "audit" as CASA has been periodically checked by the FAA.
Previously I wrote that because of an air accident in which many American citizens were killed, the US Congress demanded of the FAA to ensure American citizens would be provided with assurances of the reasonable safety of foreign airlines before they embarked on such airlines.
Thus the FAA initiated a program where it "audits" foreign aviation regulatory authorities (equivalent of the FAA and thus CAAM) which have code-sharing arrangements with US airlines. The FAA intends to ensure such foreign airlines whose code-sharing with American airlines are likely to have American citizens as passengers would be reasonably safe to fly in.
As it was NOT possible to "audit" each & every foreign airline, the FAA reasons that if the respective foreign national regulatory authorities (eg CAAM) have in place good and sound safety structure, regulations, programs and competent staff (pilot inspectors, engineer inspectors, ATC inspectors, safety inspectors, etc), and diligently practise them well, their respective airlines would in all likelihood be reasonably safe as well.
Thus non-US airlines (eg. MAS, AirAsia, etc) which wish to have code-sharing arrangements arrangements with US airlines must be those whose respective national regulatory authorities (CAAM in Malaysia's case) have been "audited" by the FAA as reliable.
The USA (FAA) does NOT compel any nation to be subjected to its "audit" but if a particular national regulatory authority rejects or refuses the FAA's "audit", then the FAA would inform US-regulated airlines NOT to have code-sharing arrangements with the foreign airlines of that particular nation. The FAA would also advise American citizens that the national aviation regulatory authority of such and such a nation have NOT been "audited" and travel in its airlines may carry very high risk, with an advisory not to travel in them if possible.
The FAA "audit" is done periodically as all audits should be. My uncles who know people in the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) affirm such an "audit" as CASA has been periodically checked by the FAA.
So WTF has the SIZE of KLIA got to do with CAAM being downgraded to Category Two?
Our local Dictator must have NOT being advised correctly by his pseudo-advisers.
The FAA downgrade of CAAM has to do with the FAA's "audit" result of CAAM's good and sound safety structure, regulations, programs and competent staff (pilot inspectors, engineer inspectors, ATC inspectors, safety inspectors, etc), and diligent practice of aforesaid, and nothing to do with KLIA's SIZE. In short, it's the intrinsic QUALITY (not QUANTITY) of CAAM.
Mahathir thinks SIZE was the requirement, like Petronas Twin Towers. Podah.
There are two superpowers that Malaysia, like it or not, has to deal with.
ReplyDeleteMahathir seems to understand enough not to quarrel openly with China.
But he doesn't seem to realise its equally futile to pick a fight with the USA.