US downgrades Malaysia’s air safety rating, says report

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 11 Nov 2019 5:45PM · 1 Comments

The US has reportedly downgraded Malaysia's air safety rating, preventing airliners from the country from adding new flights there and planes operating there will be subjected to additional inspections. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 11, 2019.

A NEW US aviation ruling is set to prohibit any new flight services from Malaysia to the county, says a Reuters report.

Quoting four different sources, Reuters said the US Federal Aviation Administration has downgraded Malaysia’s air safety rating.

This will restrict Malaysia’s airlines from adding flights to the United States.

Under the new rating, Malaysia has been downgraded to Category 2.

The new rating means air carriers from the country cannot start new services and are restricted to existing services to the United States.

The carriers will also be subject to additional inspections at US airports.

The Malaysian Insight has contacted the Transport Ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia for comment.

With the placement under category 2, FAA will also not allow Malaysian carriers to have reciprocal code-sharing arrangements with US carriers.

At present, the only local airline route to the United States is AirAsia X’s services from Kuala Lumpur to Honolulu via Osaka.

Other countries in category 2 include Thailand which was downgraded in December 2015, Bangladesh, Ghana and Costa Rica. – November 11, 2019.

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  • Aviation engineers has less job opportunities especially overseas assignment. That's why must adopt meritocracy, the best person for the best job. Then quality is assured, more job opportunities for the colleagues, now all go down together. When is Malaysia govt going to live up to global expectations. Stop living in your own world of shiok sendiri in the country. Once compared to outsiders, u r down in the drains. Start meritocracy system, let the brilliant Malaysians lead other less capable colleagues, so that both the weak and strong can grow together. Subsidy system, quota system contravene the meritocracy and quality of work done, will one day all go down to drains. Nobody wants sub standard products or services.

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