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This is the sort of headlines that Tony Abbott, Farmer Truss & his minion Beaker will be looking forward to from now on:




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Tendentious blogger (Beaker defined) Ben Sandilands is back on Oz terra firma and firmly back in the saddle...

Malaysia Airlines briefing fails to answer key questions
[url=http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/author/bensandilands/]Ben Sandilands | Jun 01, 2015 8:54PM




This next of kin of a person who vanished with MH370 wants answers, not a new image
No matter how carefully today’s restructuring briefing by Malaysia Airlines is gone over, there is much that remains uncertain.

Including its future naming and branding, the full extent of route and frequency changes, and the changes that will come to the fleet.

Anyone sensitive to the misery and anger that the loss of MH370 caused might have had their gag reflex tested.

Talking about new flat beds here, and improved club rooms there is seriously inappropriate when the fundamentals as to how and why 239 people died on 8 March 2014 in the disappearance of a 777 on its way between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing remain not just unknown but subject to an incoherent and inconsistent narrative by Malaysia’s authorities.

It is true the new management under chief executive Christoph Mueller has to say something. It is true he has to restructure the carrier. And it is reassuring to hear that the Australian routes are very important to the new Malaysia Airlines that will be ready to transcend the current ‘technically bankrupt’  version by September.

But let’s cut the guff about how good it will be until that rotten nasty deep seated stench of a baffling disaster is dispelled by some much needed candid, consistent and verifiable disclosures about MH370 in particular.

This is said without wishing to diminish or forget the loss of 298 lives aboard MH17, four months later than MH370,  under such brutal circumstances as a mid air explosion by a missile deliberately fired with a view to destroying an aircraft in Ukraine airspace, even if it is shown that a civilian airliner wasn’t intended to be the target of hostilities in that country.

Why should those who need to fly between Malaysia and Australia even begin to trust the new MH when we can’t even get our heads around the enormity of what has happened since early last year?

Until that happens, nothing that purports to be a national carrier taking over the role of Malaysia Airlines can escape from the past.

We don’t want clap trap about flat beds, nor lounges, nor other promises of a new beginning, until we have some truth about the past.

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I also thought the comment from Allan Moyes was particularly poignant...

Allan Moyes
Posted June 2, 2015 at 7:34 am | Permalink

I quite agree with what you say and can’t see a “restructuring” doing anything to improve the fortunes of Malaysia Airlines, whatever it is to be called and wherever it might cut routes. I certainly wouldn’t fly them again no matter if they call themselves Safest Airlines, nor will I be visiting Malaysia, for a variety of reasons.

What is it with airlines that they think a change of name, a touch of paint etc will magically make unpalatable truths disappear? Germanwings is another one about to be rebranded (although I think this might have been in the pipeline before the unfortunate circumstances there).

"The Malaysian government stinks higher than any of their aircraft can fly and Australia bends its knee rather than telling them to PO out of Australian airspace until they provide answers. Of course, there would be unfortunate circumstances in that situation as the relevant authorities here might have to disclose what they know (or don’t know).

Reading stories, not just on this forum, is quickly making me lose confidence in airline safety in this country. Unfortunately there aren’t too many ships sailing to the US or Europe on a regular basis these days unless you want a “party” cruise at some considerable cost and time.

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Well said Allan....

Tick tock miniscule Truss, tick tock indeed...

MTF...P2