Friday, July 27, 2007

MAS: 67% on Time

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has improved the average on-time performance of its flights from 58% in the first fortnight of this month to 67.9% currently.

Wow! Isn't that great?

I just blogged yesterday an incident of delay on 15th July 2007, where flight MH2515 from Kuching to KL which was scheduled to take off at 1.55pm was rescheduled more than 4-times. By 8.20pm, MAS then announced that the flight is canceled and passengers had to line up and change their boarding pass for the 9.30pm flight MH2539.

In fact 4-ministers including Chan Kong Choy himself, Fong Chan Onn, Hon Choon Kim and Kong Cho Ha, were not spared of the experiences of delay flights. All of them have to cancel their trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. They were slated to fly at 9.45am but the flight was rescheduled to 10.45am which means that by the time they arrived in Sabah, the MCA meeting would have convened. Hon Choon Kim said it was pointless to take the next flight. “The delay disrupted our traveling schedule.“Personally I am fine with it but I don’t know how the transport minister took it," Hon said.

67% means, for every 100 trips, 33 flights are still rescheduled or cancelled. That's a 3-Sigma company????

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