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    :)One wonders who they'd be fooling. Where was their noble spirit when they happily charged the klia2 fee? Or the ridiculous credit card charges?

     

    AirAsia to remove processing fee in October

    Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/07/30/airasia-to-remove-processing-fee-in-october#OdpL5e7VS8gFG1gc.99

    PETALING JAYA: AirAsia Group Bhd will remove the processing fee for customers who pay either through online banking and credit card from October onwards.

     

    Tan Sri probably read your previous reply here and decided to restore nobility :D

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    I don't see how they can pin this on the passengers.

    My thoughts above much less on whether they will be able to recover the RM 40M from pax (realistically a no brainer imo :)) with or without a legal basis to do that. But rather on whether they will go up that path, even if just for the publicity

    Let us be honest, would we Malaysians be as 'enthusiastic' nowadays about the red giant if they have had to make do without the colour and antics of you know who all these while ? :D

     

     

    One wonders who they'd be fooling. Where was their noble spirit when they happily charged the klia2 fee? Or the ridiculous credit card charges?

    Therein is where I believe their PR strength stands out. Did we hear any hoo-hahs of protestation in the media when the klia2 fee and credit card charges came about - none or minimal ? But man ! Did we hear and read about them refusing to collect the 'excessive' taxes (for sake of the Rakyat, no less) - like it or not, this is now legal precedence in Malaysia and can be, and probably will be, cited in future :)

    In the meantime, your Mat, Chin & Muthu out on the street has been fed all this time about heroic stories of you know who championing their right 'to fly' - that counts, much, much more than what we comment upon here ...... :)

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    A bit of trivia perhaps - if at end of day and legal process has been exhausted and judgement stands as is, would AK group then have any standing to demand for the "unpaid passenger service charges" from each and every pax they had not collected from during those six months ?

    I'm guessing it won't take much to generate a 'WE TRIED OUR BEST TO SAVE YOU FROM UNFAIR CHARGES BUT OUR HANDS ARE NOW TIED, SO PLEASE NOW COUGH UP THE MONEY' publicity campaign. A winner PR wise I think - perhaps gahmen and MAHB could then be persuaded against pursuing that RM 40M debt. After all, the amount involved is probably of loose change quantum, taken in context of voters' perception in GE15 and negative PR for MAHB in short term

    :)

  15. Posted · Edited by BC Tam · Report reply

    ..... order more A350 by swapping A380 with Airbus.

    If that does happen, it would be interesting to see what manufacturer A does with them 380s :)

     

     

    Still a lot of uncertainty with the max at this stage.

    Don't the promises by our MO1 to POTUS count for anything anymore ?! :rolleyes:

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    Look beyond the confines of this country and you'll find that the ringgit you're paying really is peanuts in comparison to the dollars you'd pay for domestic travel elsewhere. And more often than not you're paying more for less in many parts of the world.

    You mentioned "a domestic ticket in Malaysia?" and mine was a response confined to that :)

    If looking beyond, yes, a fair comment about payment in form of peanuts, particularly so when considering how our MYR (with which we pay for our domestic rides) is faring against the USD (for which most things aviation related is transacted I believe) :)

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    I am so mightily impressed Tan Sri TF decided to be in attendance at launching of an observation deck in his neighbourhood, rather than the unveiling of Air Asia X's 330neo at Le Bourget :)

     

    Plus, who in their wildest moments of imagination would ever have, well imagined, said Tan Sri ditching his trade mark red cap for one of MAHB's orange coloured head gear :)

    (perhaps they are now done with their suing and counter-suing processes ?)

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    I ask you, why aren't we seeing more MAX crashes? Why is it that we're not seeing Southwest, American or Air Canada, the three airline with the most MAX 8 fleet have zero crashes between them?

    My guess for what it's worth - they have all been grounded ?! :D

     

    (my apologies, could not resist) :)

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