Losing out in aviation industry

FILE PHOTO: AirAsia planes are seen on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) in Sepang, Malaysia December 13, 2017. Picture taken through glass. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo

I REFER to the news reports on the Transport Ministry’s announcement that the Cabinet had approved the application by AirAsia for the extra flights that it wanted.

This decision was a watershed event in that the Cabinet had to intervene to right what was supposed to have been done in the first place. But it was a sad day for the aviation industry in Malaysia, not because AirAsia got in on another route but because the Cabinet had to do what was essentially the job of the Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom).