Don't be emotional, Bung Moktar tells Tony Fernandes

Asila Jalil Diyana Ibrahim Asila Jalil, Diyana Ibrahim Updated 6 years ago · Published on 23 Nov 2017 10:15PM · 7 Comments

TONY Fernandes should not be emotional but instead learn to accept public feedback, said Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin.

Bung said he had nothing personal against Fernandes and was just bringing up the concerns raised by the public regarding his budget airline, AirAsia.

“That was why I said he should not be too emotional. I was speaking through experience and the complaints I heard from the people.

“AirAsia should act as a low-cost airline but it is not,” Bung told The Malaysian Insight.

On Tuesday, Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said Putrajaya will not hesitate to act against AirAsia if it were true that the low-cost airline ignores users’ welfare. 

He said the issue had been discussed with the Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom) and it is in line with the Malaysian Aviation Commission (Amendment) Act 2015 (Act 771), which is to protect users’ interest.

He was responding to Bung who had urged the government to stricter in viewing low-cost airlines’ policies.

Bung said AirAsia is inconsiderate for making passengers purchase a new flight ticket even for being 10 minutes late, which is different from the policies of an international low-cost airline that would help their customers get a seat without extra charges.

Bung also said AirAsia tickets are expensive as it could go up to RM2,000 which is not in line with its policy as a low-cost airline.

Fernandes took to Twitter to air his dissatisfaction over the complaints.

“Some MPs complain about AirAsia for 16 years. Yet before AirAsia there was so little connectivity between east and west malaysia. Not even a KL-Sandakan flight.

“Why don’t these same MPs complain about the 100 percent increases Malaysian airports charge poor first time travellers,” tweeted Fernandes.

Bung, however, said his comment were not to deny what AirAsia had done for the country.

“I respect him (Fernandes), but he should also provide CSR service (corporate social responsibility) to rural folk,” said the MP, adding that this should not be a problem for the AirAsia supremo since he had made a lot of money through the budget airlines. – November 23, 2017.

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  • The Bloody Pariah loses the argument with Tony so starts bawling "Don't be emotional. Mummy,mummy, Tony beat me!" And starts yakking about rural folks while he struts around with his actress wife and lives it up. Hey, Bum Karno, you loser ! Go start an airline and see how you fare when real competition in the real world!

    Posted 6 years ago by James Dean · Reply

  • Typical UMNO/BN - cannot stick to the rules and run and cry in a fair fight. They think they are so special when they are in fact below average, over entitled and lives in ivory tower. Najib can still billions so he do not need to pay for what he wants.

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Hey Fernandes, Bung Mokhtar is correct. Answer his complaints instead of diverting the issue. Guilty-kah?

    Posted 6 years ago by Malaysian First · Reply

  • TF should lambast ERL for charging passengers a fee even though they don't use them.This is a fee buta buta given to ERL for no services provided and they have collected over RM700m! This fee also formed part of the airport charges that he kept complaining about, which is paid by the passengers and not AA.Get that remove first before keep on complaining, I have been to worst airports in the world.Or the owners are his buddies?

    Posted 6 years ago by Can Lim · Reply

  • Tan Sri Tony - our salute and respect to you for standing up to a mongrel rabid infected politician. We have long suffered under this lying convicted adulterer - his lies, hypocrites, racist and bigotry comments. We know a bully when we see one like we had at axa affin life insurance bhd. Read more at www.changenow083.blogspot.com

    Posted 6 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply

  • Though Bung is a pain in the ass and also a big bully but this is one time I fully agreed with him. TF has got to seriously look into the complaint. AirAsia claimed to be the budget airline and facilitating many to fly but very often we see that the fares to Asean countries are absurd especially when opportunities strike in for the airline to charge exorbitantly when the circumtances is not of the customers doing. The main country airline at times and now now quite oftenly in par with Airasia in the fares and also freebies of meals and no charge of 30kg baggage. If what Bung has mentioned that RM2000 is charged for a flight from KK to KL, it is a rip off on the customers who desperately needs to be at the destination. Come off it Tony , it is almost flying to Europe. Lets be reasonable in doing business and not heartless with intent of recouping big profits from customers. The long term effect will makes lots of customers detest AirAsia and what more when it comes to delay there is nothing of comforts, leving onto customers the hidden cost and rebates are long overdue in coming. There are also many concerns not listed out by many does not mean that AirAsia is wonderfully managed and concerns are not accountable but projected to others. Other budget airlines are making impact now and offering the real meaning of budget with complimenting services without a thought in fleecing too much from the customers.

    Posted 6 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • Lee Lee, you write a wonderfully crappy passive-aggressive letter, congrats! You must now be smarting with AA CEO Aireen Omar's revelation that the highest AA fare from Sandakan-KL costs only $1180. So Bungo told a lie and YOU lapped it up, bodoh! Why would AA win countless in'l awards for budget airlines unless they have achieved great results? Why are you so ready to jump in stabbing Tony with your bloody dagger unless you had an axe to grind? What is it? IChink-envy? That someone other than a chinkychonk was able to capitalize and build a brilliant business? That the chinamen DONT have a monopoly on brains and business smarts? What is it? What is it? If you think China is really going to negotiate its way to world domination as a Communist autocracy because Chinks ar the greatest think since sliced bread, think again! Falsified figures, one-child genius heartless policy, thuggish treatments the people, rapidly ageing demographics, stealing US and other nations industrial and military secrets etc. The Chinese are just another human race, thy have no Beethoven, Mozart, Einstein, Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi, Jesus, Marx, and a thousand other thinkers and great thought leaders, DESPITE their 5,000 years hstory! What failures! Now, as usual, thy lie , cheat and bully their way to economic strength, based on th huge population and tons of ..... you guessed it..... lots of lying,cheating etc. plus working from a low economic base. The way ahead will be lots harder and expose the weakness of their political model of governance.

      Posted 6 years ago by James Dean · Reply