Friday, 30 January 2009

AirAsia meets Najib over Airport LabuLabi today


Today, Friday, AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes has a scheduled meeting with Finance Minister Najib Razak and other finmin officials to tell them why he should be allowed to build his dream airport despite reservations by many people. Me included.

The word is, Najib will roll back the Cabinet approval for the project and ask Tony to site his budget terminal within KLIA.
But Tony will likely get more say over how the upcoming LCCT@KLIA, The Rakyat-Wins Terminal will be run. And Malaysia Airports will have to listen to him more.

If this happens, then all is good.
As I said, I am not against AirAsia - heck, I flew Singapore-KL-Singapore in its planes regularly. Like me, there are many people out there who want better utilisation and connectivity for KLIA.
And higher safety than having two control towers within 10km of one another.
Tony should reduce a bit his big head, as should MAB, and work together.

1 comments:

kluangman said...

Dalam apa keadaan sekalipun Najib kena tolak pembinaan lapanganterbang baru labi kerana soal dalaman UMNO hari ini lebih penting untuk menghalang rakyat terus membuat persepsi yang buruk kepada UMNO terutama dari segi isu rasuah dan terus di eksploit oleh pembangkang.

Dan yang lebih penting, di mana Pemimpin Perosak, kenapa tidak dia sahaja yang tangani kemelut yang berpunca darinya, kenapa Najib jadi pak sanggup dulu sekarang dan selamanya. Adakah budinya ke atas Najib terlalu besar untuk Najib mengatakan 'tidak'.

Nasarudin hanya dari UMNO yang melompat kepada Pakatan tetapi awas..ada komponen BN akan bertindak demikian jika sudah jemu dengan pemimpin seperti Dolah dan Najib.