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Flight attendants union worried by MAS' planned Boeing purchases
Published:  Sep 18, 2017 8:09 PM
Updated: 11:54 PM
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The National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) is worried about Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) planned purchases of new Boeing aircraft.

Nufam secretary-general Mohd Akram Osman noted that new aircraft meant new routes and hiring more staff to man them.

However, he expressed fear that this may lead to a repeat of the mass retrenchment of workers in 2015, on grounds that the airline had supposedly grown "bloated".

"This is like going back to square one when MAS was claimed to be bloated with workers. The airline had to lay off 6,000 workers two years ago.

"It's been less than three years after this retrenchment and here they go again overspending to purchase more planes.

"The government injected RM6 billion and now more money is willingly spent for the airline. Is MAS making huge profits already?" Akram asked in a statement today.

He also noted that MAS had yet to publicly announced that it had secured new routes for the planes.

Akram lamented that each time the MAS management has made a firm decision for its recovery plan, other things would set in...

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