MAS: A national ordeal for Idris Jala
Friday, December 2nd, 2005 | 11:40 am @ SK
For sure, it’s ain’t honeymoon for Idris Jala, even his first working day, which is a day after Malaysia Airlines (MAS) reported RM368m net loss for second quarter ending Sept 30.
Together with the appointment of ex-British Airways (BA) Peter Read as Director of Operation, lets see how Idris is going to turn things around this time.
National ordeal? Indeed, it’s a very demanding one.
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:39 pm
Don’t worry, ur EPF ur income tax may be used to cover their lost either Proton or MAS
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:15 pm
The four Ps of marketing..
Go-to-market model..
I see the air stewardness still quite pretty wud.. what went wrong ? Seems like it is inflation problems.. perhaps they should diversify.
aiyo..y don’t they send a spy to learn from SIA ?
December 7th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
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December 26th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
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March 26th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
hey, my name is Carrie and i’m a student from Universiti Teknologi Petronas. i’m currently doing a research on MAS - about their risk management program. What do you think is their risk management program? I’m hoping for opinions. Please reply this mail to my email account. Thank you so much!
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
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