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Posted on 08/29/2014 6:46:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia Airlines will cut 6,000 workers as part of a $1.9 billion overhaul announced Friday to revive its damaged brand after being hit by double passenger jet disasters.
The staff reduction represents about 30 percent of its current workforce of 20,000. A search for a new CEO is underway, but there is no move to change the airline's name, which some branding experts had said was necessary for a successful makeover....
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They make the marketers of New Coke look like pikers.
Maybe they laid off the dead wood.
Maybe I should invest in Boeing because someone is going to need new aircraft soon.
It's complicated, and math is hard.
/johnny
I have studied why the were accidentally shot down over Ukraine. The answer is — that crappy airlines was trying to save fuel!!! in my opinion. It was 400 miles around the “no Fly zone”. These bastards killed 247 people for $#.98 a gallon !!
Why not just offer round the world use any time tickets for $300?
“Fly Malaysian Air. You will arrive at your destination relaxed and refreshed. Most likely you will still be alive.”
If it’s true that major airlines were flying the same route over Ukraine that the downed aircraft took then the airline cannot be blamed for that downing.The missing aircraft may well be a different story.
That's the key...airlines...plural.I recall seeing a report ((BBC I believe) that at least several major airlines,including Lufthansa (one of the most highly respected airlines flying today),were taking that very same route.Absent some sort of warning by Europe's "FAA" not to take that route I don't see how Malaysian can share blame.
Nobody forced those 247 people to fly Malaysian. I bet they saved a couple of pennies in their tickets as a result.
New slogan for Malaysian Airlines: ‘If you don’t arrive at your destination, we will refund your money to the next of kin’
wow.
I guess Southwest Airlines would get the same comment?
I would much more likely have flown Cathay Pacific nearly anywhere in Asia. I trust Vietnam Airways pretty much too, for moving up and down that country.
‘Fair winds on a following sky.’
Malaysian was always known as one of the top customer service experience airlines in the world, but that really took a hit in the last 10 years, as discounters popped up all over the Pacific Region.
From what I’ve read, instead of trying to be all things to everyone, they intend to make it the “Flag” Carrier again, and return to that kind of an idea, with state subsidies, and a smaller fleet, with a less frequent schedule.
Let the discounters fight over 24X daily to Singapore, for instance, while they go, say 4 times, with much better service.
It works for Emirates, even with heavy route competition, which is the idea they have.
You might remember that a Singapore Airlines jumbo was about 20 miles behind Flight 17 on the same route. It could easily have been them being destroyed.
The real question I have is:
Were not the data recorders found? Where the hell are they?
They should have dropped that name, like six months ago. Regardless of whose fault it is, the disappearing airline (full of people) was bad enough, now this?
I was responding to this: “that crappy airlines was trying to save fuel!!!”
It isn’t callous to point out that the people had their choice; they opted to save a few pennies in the ticket.
Probably every single non-Muslim in their workforce.
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