Bersatu Man Calls Out Sabotage Over Loss Of Airline Maintenance Crew

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About 60 members of Malaysia Airlines’ maintenance crew have reportedly left for a company owned by rival Singapore Airlines. (Malaysia Airlines pic)
PETALING JAYA: A Bersatu leader has raised the question of internal sabotage following a report that 60 Malaysia Airlines maintenance workers had left for a rival company.
Malaysia Aviation Group, the parent company of Malaysia Airlines, acknowleged that it had experienced an 
attrition of skilled workforce following a media report that over 60 maintenance, repair and overhaul personnel had resigned.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 
internal sabotage to allow a company owned by Singapore Airlines to operate in Malaysia without stipulating that it could not poach Malaysia Airlines personnel.

How can Anwar allow this to happen? How can Loke allow this to happen, he said, referring to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and transport minister Loke Siew Fook.
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 
it is a very bad deal which clearly amounted to sabotage against the national carrier. They (Anwar and Loke) must be held accountable, he said. - FMT

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