Thank You!!

Thanks so much K.Dilla and K.Mimie for sharing your experiences. Really appreciate tht. :)

MAS vs. Air Asia

Last night on Buletin Utama, pakcik Fernandez (i really hate the more-Brit- than-the-Brits accent of his, really. Sounds so fake!) itu telah melatah, konon nak adakan open dialoge with Idris Jala of MAS, kononnya to resolve issues. To me i think he's just being sore after having a taste of his own medicine.

Air Asia started the low cost thing, which i think is good justto give consumers choices. It obviously had a big impact on MAS, demanded an icrease in routes, took all major routes in Borneo (and then gave them back to MAS via Firefly - if i'm not mistaken at tht time they were so excited on starting the AirAsia X thingy) but MAS just sit back listen and goon with life. And now, just because MAS starts a low cost campaign,(mind you, not to all destinations) he starts to whine and complain?? Kata MAS tiru their red "trademark" and fonts... hey... have you been studying marketing?? If you look at so many various products on the market, you can see tht some products may look like another product of a different brand. It's a marketing strategy, just as long as they don't violate the trademark and IP issues. And, do we need to remind you of the somewhat close resemblence of AA to Virgin's logo (the red, the fonts???)

And then he goes whining about how the govn shouldn't be subsidising MAS. Let see...MAS is one of the GLCS, meaning which the government have shares in the company. They operate as a private company. Ok.. let's put this simple. If you're one of the shareholders of a company, you'd definitely want tour company to thrive, right? So you would do to all you can to help your company, wouldn't you?? Again, the govn is one of the shareholders of MAS. You do the math.

The govn had helped AirAsia in so many ways too - nak extra routes, bagi; nak ambik MAS' routes, bagi; nak LCCT, bagi (i heard there's one more LCCT nak dibina kat Kuching. Betul ke tak, tatau la.). sampaikan at one point i felt tht the govn has offered too much that it's going to compromise MAS as the NATIONAL CARRIER. Tapi, tht's my own 2 cents la. And then when MAS wants to tackle them at their own game... they whine, and whine, and whineeeee!!! Let's all have a BIG laugh. Ha-ha-ha.