Low-cost carrier AirAsia Bhd has slashed bonus for staff getting “good” in their appraisal to 1.5 months from three months the year before at a time when it is starting to see stiffer competition locally.
Staff getting “outstanding” appraisal stand to receive up to three times their monthly pay cheque for their 2013 performance.
The bonus slash comes at a time when AirAsia, for the first nine months ended Sept 30, 2013, saw a strong revenue stream but a big dip in its net profit due to foreign exchange losses on borrowings.
The budget airline saw its yield drop 5.7% year-to-date as both Air- Asia and Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) “embarked on an aggressive capacity expansion to boost topline and achieve economies of scale amid heightening competition driven by Malindo Air’s debut”, according to a sector report by RHB Research Institute Sdn Bhd dated Dec 16.
AirAsia founder and major shareholder Tan Sri Tony Fernandes made the bonus announcement at the company’s annual dinner for the Malaysia- based staff at Sepang, Selangor, last week.
When asked about the slash in bonus payout, the company declined to comment. AirAsia posted a net profit of RM198.6 million on the back of RM3.84 billion in revenue for the first nine months ended Sept 30, 2013. For the same period in 2012, it posted a revenue of RM3.59 billion and a net profit of RM486.2 million.
On its part, loss-making national airline MAS did not award any staff bonus last year and this year. MAS posted a net loss of RM830.2 million on the back of RM11.22 billion in revenue for the first nine months ended Sept 30, 2013, with its group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya expecting the airliner to become profitable by the end of 2014.
Regionally, Cathay Pacific Airways had recently announced that it will award a pay increase to eligible Hong Kong based employees for 2014.
The Hong Kong-based carrier will also provide a discretionary bonus payment for 2013, based on one month’s salary, to eligible staff in their December salary payment.
“While our business has seen some improvement compared to the previous year, 2013 has still been a challenging year for our airline,” its CEO John Slosar said in a recent media statement.
In its report on the aviation sector, RHB Research noted that it has been a challenging year for Malaysian carriers.
“Competition will remain challenging in 2014 but less severe in our view, as Malindo Air has opted to take a more conservative expansion strategy, which bodes well for Air- Asia and MAS,” it said.
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Saturday, 21 December 2013
Friday, 29 November 2013
MAS - INHART Bekerjasama Bangunkan Produk Halal
MAS - Malaysia Airlines System
INHART -International Institute for Halal Research and Training
Syarikat Penerbangan Kebangsaan, Malaysia Airlines (MAS), telah menandatangani memorandum persefahaman dengan Institut Latihan dan Penyelidikan Halal Antarabangsa (INHART) bagi membangunkan produk dan jenama halal.
INHART merupakan pusat khusus untuk industry halal yang ditubuhkan oleh Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM).
Menerusi perjanjian itu, MAS akan menerima para pelajar dari INHART sebagai pelatih di operasi penyediaan makanan halal MAS, sementara INHART akan membantu dalam latihan halal dan menyediakan keselamatan, perundingan dan latihan pematuhan syariah kepada MAS.
Sumber : Utusan Malaysia, 27 Nov 2013
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART), a special centre dedicated to Halal industry established by International Islamic University Malaysia. Through the understanding, MAS will accept students from INHART for internship at its Halal catering operations while INHART will assist in providing safety and Halal training, consultancy and Shariah compliance training to MAS.
This collaboration is one of Malaysia Airlines’ initiatives to formulate, implement and continuously update Malaysia Airlines halal standards.
INHART will be developing relevant training modules for MAS beneficiaries and will conduct training programs in order to ensure compliance to halal requirements by the national carrier’s caterers. Malaysia Airlines currently has two modules of halal training in place. With this collaboration the module will be worked at further to enhance the offerings.
Malaysia Airlines values this contribution by INHART as it is constantly trying to improvise the Halal standard on board it’s flights. 15 caterers engaged by Malaysia Airlines operate from a 100% halal kitchen and another 29 caterers are currently operating from a partially halal kitchen. In all partial kitchens the production of food is totally separated between halal and non-halal product hence providing Malaysia Airlines with a completely halal plate each time. This is also supported by the constant quality assurance audit conducted by our experienced team from the In Flight Operation QA, Safety & Halal unit under Service & Quality Assurance Department.
Malaysia Airlines, Director of Customer Services, Dato’ Mohd Salleh Ahmad Tabrani said, “We hope that with this collaboration there shall be a platform to strengthen existing cooperation and implement activities that are of mutual interests and benefits both MAS and INHART-IIUM. At Malaysia Airlines, we look at this as an opportunity to further enhance the travel experience of our Muslim passengers. Muslim passengers make up a large percentage of our customers and we want to continuously work towards making travel comfortable for them”.
Both Malaysia Airlines and INHART believe that this understanding will bring about the enhancement of the MAS Halal Manual & Standard Operating Procedure whilst providing the students of INHART a valuable practical experience.
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Malaysia Safe for US Tourists
Important point from article below ;
The minister, who was here to promote the Visit Malaysia Year 2014, acknowledged in an interview with Bernama that according to the World Tourism Organisation, Malaysia was named the 10th most visited destination in the world.
“We had over 22 million tourists in 2012, posting a 1.5 per cent increase over the previous year, and this clearly indicates that Malaysia is indeed, a safe and welcoming place for Americans to visit,” he emphasised.
Malaysia’s top 10 markets for incoming tourism were, in the sequence order, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Brunei, India, the Philippines, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Some 12.6 million foreign tourists were clocked in Malaysia in the first half of this year, posting a 7.9 per cent growth over the year-earlier period, generating revenue of RM31.18 billion, a 16.3 per cent rise over the year-earlier period.
Malaysia’s tourism-derived revenue amounted to RM60.6 billion last year, a 3.8 per cent increase over 2011.
Over 240,000 people from the US visited Malaysia last year, a 10.8 per cent increase over the previous year; during the first half of this year, Malaysia received 127,221 people from the US, a 6.4 per cent increase over the corresponding six months of the previous year. The projected total arrivals from the US for the entire 2013 is expected to be 248,000.
The Visit Malaysia Year 2014 promotional campaign targets some 28 million foreign tourists, including 250,000 from the US, to visit Malaysia next year.
“I hope to see the United States among the top 10 markets for tourism to Malaysia,” said Mohamed Nazri.
But lack of direct connectivity between New York and Kuala Lumpur is a major hurdle in the way of attracting greater tourism traffic from the east coast.
Malaysian carrier, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) discontinued operating direct flights from Newark to Kuala Lumpur, some years back; tourists from the east coast have to first fly to Los Angeles on the west coast from where they can take a MAS flight to Kuala Lumpur.
“I will speak to MAS to reinstate flights from New York via Dubai to Kuala Lumpur. There is a good chance that this may be re-started. Direct connectivity will provide a strong impetus to traffic from the east coast,” observed Mohamed Nazri.
However, in the interim, tourists could take connections from New York to Kuala Lumpur via a third country if they took Singapore Airline, Emirates, Etihad or Qatar.
Mohamed Nazri was also keen to invite investments from the US in Malaysia’s tourism sector, including the hotel industry.
“We allow 100 per cent foreign equity in the hotel segment. Also, foreign travel agencies can set up 100 per cent self-owned subsidiaries in Malaysia,” he said.
Malaysia whose scenic beauty and landscape have provided the setting for many foreign films, is also keen to invite foreign filmmakers, including Bollywood productions, to shoot films in Malaysia.
There is also interest to invite Bollywood to stage its annual film awards ceremony in Malaysia, as Thailand and Singapore have been doing.
“We have helped organize such an event in Malaysia before. However, we are not the only country interested in hosting such an event. Our neighbouring countries are also competing to attract Bollywood events. We would also like to see Bollywood producers avail of our modern film-production centre in Kuala Lumpur,” maintained Mohamed Nazri.
The world’s largest water park called Legoland in Nusajaya, Johor, should attract tourists from around the world, including from the US.
Johanif Mohamed Ali, the vice-president of Tourism Malaysia’s New York office, revealed that Malaysia was collaborating with the Thailand Tourism Authority to produce a dual-destination package, offering a Malaysian and Thai destination.
A ‘Facebook Sweepstakes’ has been launched offering twin destinations of Borneo and Bangkok.
Since Oct 12, a gigantic screen located at a prominent position in Times Square, near the Nasdaq tower, has been showing four times an hour, each for 30 seconds, for 24 hours a day, Malaysia’s tourism attractions.
The display will continue until Jan 4, 2014. Almost a million-strong crowd would have exposure to the film when it gathers on New Year’s Eve to witness the world-famous countdown to usher in the New Year.
The Times Square location, with its eye-catching neon signs, attracts each day thousands of tourists from the United States and overseas.
Mohamed Nazri was accompanied by Rashidi Hasbullah, the ministry’s deputy secretary-general; and Datuk Azizan Noordin and Datin Normasila Musa, the deputy director-general and the director for international promotion, respectively, for Tourism Malaysia. – BERNAMA
Source : abnxcess, 16 Oct 2013
- American citizen were given visa-on-arrival for 90 days
- Malaysia named the 10th Most Visited Destination in the World -WTO
- Top incoming tourist : Singapore, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Brunei, India, the Philippines, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.
- 240,000 from the US visited Malaysia 2012. 10.8 per cent increase over the previous year; The projected total arrivals from the US for the entire 2013 is expected to be 248,000.
- The Visit Malaysia Year 2014 promotional campaign targets some 28 million foreign tourists, including 250,000 from the US.
- Lack of connection between New York-Kuala Lumpur. New York to Kuala Lumpur via a third country if they took Singapore Airline, Emirates, Etihad or Qatar.
- We allow 100 per cent foreign equity in the hotel segment. Also, foreign travel agencies can set up 100 per cent self-owned subsidiaries in Malaysia -said Nazri
- Malaysia whose scenic beauty and landscape have provided the setting for many foreign films
- The world’s largest water park called Legoland in Nusajaya, Johor, should attract tourists from around the world, including from the US.
- A ‘Facebook Sweepstakes’ has been launched offering twin destinations of Borneo and Bangkok.
- Since Oct 12, a gigantic screen located at a prominent position in Times Square, near the Nasdaq tower, has been showing four times an hour, each for 30 seconds, for 24 hours a day, Malaysia’s tourism attractions.The display will continue until Jan 4, 2014. Almost a million-strong crowd would have exposure to the film when it gathers on New Year’s Eve to witness the world-famous countdown to usher in the New Year.
NEW YORK, Oct 15 — Arriving here on Monday after visiting Los Angeles and Vancouver, Malaysia’s Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz urged Americans to visit Malaysia, saying they were “very welcome”.
Addressing a large gathering of tour operators and travel agents, international media and special guests at New York’s Hilton Hotel, he underscored the fact that American citizens were given visa-on-arrival facility for 90 days.The minister, who was here to promote the Visit Malaysia Year 2014, acknowledged in an interview with Bernama that according to the World Tourism Organisation, Malaysia was named the 10th most visited destination in the world.
“We had over 22 million tourists in 2012, posting a 1.5 per cent increase over the previous year, and this clearly indicates that Malaysia is indeed, a safe and welcoming place for Americans to visit,” he emphasised.
Malaysia’s top 10 markets for incoming tourism were, in the sequence order, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Brunei, India, the Philippines, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Some 12.6 million foreign tourists were clocked in Malaysia in the first half of this year, posting a 7.9 per cent growth over the year-earlier period, generating revenue of RM31.18 billion, a 16.3 per cent rise over the year-earlier period.
Malaysia’s tourism-derived revenue amounted to RM60.6 billion last year, a 3.8 per cent increase over 2011.
Over 240,000 people from the US visited Malaysia last year, a 10.8 per cent increase over the previous year; during the first half of this year, Malaysia received 127,221 people from the US, a 6.4 per cent increase over the corresponding six months of the previous year. The projected total arrivals from the US for the entire 2013 is expected to be 248,000.
The Visit Malaysia Year 2014 promotional campaign targets some 28 million foreign tourists, including 250,000 from the US, to visit Malaysia next year.
“I hope to see the United States among the top 10 markets for tourism to Malaysia,” said Mohamed Nazri.
But lack of direct connectivity between New York and Kuala Lumpur is a major hurdle in the way of attracting greater tourism traffic from the east coast.
Malaysian carrier, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) discontinued operating direct flights from Newark to Kuala Lumpur, some years back; tourists from the east coast have to first fly to Los Angeles on the west coast from where they can take a MAS flight to Kuala Lumpur.
“I will speak to MAS to reinstate flights from New York via Dubai to Kuala Lumpur. There is a good chance that this may be re-started. Direct connectivity will provide a strong impetus to traffic from the east coast,” observed Mohamed Nazri.
However, in the interim, tourists could take connections from New York to Kuala Lumpur via a third country if they took Singapore Airline, Emirates, Etihad or Qatar.
Mohamed Nazri was also keen to invite investments from the US in Malaysia’s tourism sector, including the hotel industry.
“We allow 100 per cent foreign equity in the hotel segment. Also, foreign travel agencies can set up 100 per cent self-owned subsidiaries in Malaysia,” he said.
Malaysia whose scenic beauty and landscape have provided the setting for many foreign films, is also keen to invite foreign filmmakers, including Bollywood productions, to shoot films in Malaysia.
There is also interest to invite Bollywood to stage its annual film awards ceremony in Malaysia, as Thailand and Singapore have been doing.
“We have helped organize such an event in Malaysia before. However, we are not the only country interested in hosting such an event. Our neighbouring countries are also competing to attract Bollywood events. We would also like to see Bollywood producers avail of our modern film-production centre in Kuala Lumpur,” maintained Mohamed Nazri.
The world’s largest water park called Legoland in Nusajaya, Johor, should attract tourists from around the world, including from the US.
Johanif Mohamed Ali, the vice-president of Tourism Malaysia’s New York office, revealed that Malaysia was collaborating with the Thailand Tourism Authority to produce a dual-destination package, offering a Malaysian and Thai destination.
A ‘Facebook Sweepstakes’ has been launched offering twin destinations of Borneo and Bangkok.
Since Oct 12, a gigantic screen located at a prominent position in Times Square, near the Nasdaq tower, has been showing four times an hour, each for 30 seconds, for 24 hours a day, Malaysia’s tourism attractions.
The display will continue until Jan 4, 2014. Almost a million-strong crowd would have exposure to the film when it gathers on New Year’s Eve to witness the world-famous countdown to usher in the New Year.
The Times Square location, with its eye-catching neon signs, attracts each day thousands of tourists from the United States and overseas.
Mohamed Nazri was accompanied by Rashidi Hasbullah, the ministry’s deputy secretary-general; and Datuk Azizan Noordin and Datin Normasila Musa, the deputy director-general and the director for international promotion, respectively, for Tourism Malaysia. – BERNAMA
Source : abnxcess, 16 Oct 2013
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Malaysia Airlines celebrates the spirit of 1Malaysia with 30% Discount on Fares to Europe
I have send an e-mail to Malaysia Airline and just received an e-mail from Media Relations, MAS today. :
Malaysia Airlines
Celebrates the Spirit of 1Malaysia
with 30% Discount on Fares
to Europe
Subang (15 December 2011): Malaysians have an excellent opportunity
to start 2012 with a bang by enjoying a 30% airfare discount for travel on
Malaysia Airlines from KL International Airport (KLIA) to its five destinations
in Europe namely London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris and Istanbul.
All they need to do is plan and travel together in groups of three,
six or nine friends and they must be from at least three different Malaysian
ethnic or cultural backgrounds to enjoy a fantastic European holiday, 1Malaysia
style!
The national carrier is offering this discount on Business and
Economy class fares for this promotion covering air travel from 1 January to 31
March 2012.
To enjoy these offers, Malaysians have to produce valid Malaysian
passports and blue Malaysian ICs of the ‘muhibbah’ group members at Malaysia
Airlines’ ticket offices to purchase their air tickets.
Each 1Malaysia group must travel on the same class and flights
throughout the journey using this special offer which is available now until 26
December 2011.
Malaysia Airlines currently operates twice daily flights to London,
daily flights to Amsterdam and Paris, five-weekly services to Frankfurt and
thrice weekly to Istanbul.
– Ends –
Issued by Media
Relations Unit/Communications Division, Malaysia Airlines, Subang
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enquiries, please contact:
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