Bersatu man calls out
‘sabotage’ over loss of
airline maintenance crew
Malaysia Airlines’ parent company acknowledges an ‘attrition of skilled workforce’ after a news report of 60 resignations.
following a report that 60 Malaysia Airlines maintenance workers had left for a rival company.internal sabotage
Malaysia Aviation Group, the parent company of Malaysia Airlines, acknowledged that it had experienced an
following a media report that over 60 maintenance, repair and overhaul personnel had resigned.attrition of skilled workforce
MAG said that the loss of the workers arose from new companies, local and international, entering the Malaysian market.
Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said it was tantamount to
to allow a company owned by Singapore Airlines to operate in Malaysia without stipulating that it could not poach Malaysia Airlines personnel.internal sabotage
he said, referring to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and transport minister Loke Siew Fook.How can Anwar allow this to happen? How can Loke allow this to happen,
His remarks came in response to news report that the workers who resigned had joined SIA Engineering Company, an aircraft maintenance firm owned by Singapore Airlines.
A spokesman for MAG merely said the company had nothing else to add to a statement issued last Thursday.
The Singapore company had in December taken a 15-year lease on two hangars at Subang airport for the company’s third base maintenance hub in the Asia-Pacific region.
The lease was taken with a subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, which is the sole shareholder of Malaysia Airlines.
Anwar is also the Khazanah chairman, while civil aviation comes under the purview of transport minister Loke.
Wan Fayhsal said
which clearly amounted to sabotage against the national carrier.it is a very bad deal
he said.They (Anwar and Loke) must be held accountable,
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