AIRASIA chief operating officer Tony Fernandes is shocked that Malaysian Airports Holding Bhd has called the cops on his employee for telling some hard truths about the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2).
MAHB, which manages the airport, recently filed a police report against AirAsia communications head Mohd Aziz Laikar Ali over a video he posted on Twitter showing the lack of hygiene at klia2.
Aziz was today summoned by the police over the video, which showed a rubbish bin crawling with maggots at the airport, which is almost exclusively used by AirAsia.
Fernandes said MAHB remained stuck in the old ways in new Malaysia, where there is freedom of speech and choice, slamming the airport company for bullying.
“It isn’t the first time we’ve been reported for speaking the truth, they have always resorted to a culture of bullying and threatening and we do not condone to that,” he said on Facebook, today.
In the post, Aziz had questioned MAHB’s statement about its outstanding performance in airport management for October.
Fernandes said the police report showed MAHB was against transparency.
“It makes me wonder what else they are trying to hide? And anyone who has been a guest/staff at klia2 knows all the endless flaws of the facilities. We all sound like broken records but tell me it isn’t true.
“All these years, we have always had to deal with this and had our arms twisted when it comes to MAHB and, Mavcom.
“And now they want to punish us for stating the facts again,” he said.
He said MAHB could have responded to the complaint with a resolution but it “chose to be defensive and offensive”.
“We will not back down any more and the truth always prevails anyway.”
AirAsia chairman Kamarudin Meranun said the airline had dealt for years with MAHB’s “thin-skinned” inability to take criticism.
“But maybe, just maybe, this time they have taken it to a new level,” he said in an internet posting.
He had some advice for MAHB, quoting the former British prime minister Winston Churchill, who said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
MAHB could have responded to Aziz with thanks for pointing out the problem and assurances that it would be more diligent in the future.
“But they couldn’t be magnanimous, could they? They had to be the Scrooge of the Christmas season.”
He urged Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mhamad as well as the transport, finance, and economic affairs ministers to intervene. – December 24, 2018.
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