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"The airport is for another 50 years in the future. Then we would have 200 million passengers.

We have to build now because if we wait the cost will go up."

Any of you remember which idiot gave us that answer on KLIA Sepang? [ DELETED - Seditious ]

So it never stops...

Vendetta till the end !!!
Even when Pak Lah is just months away from his departure...

And this skeleton search continues... especially with the UMNO elections round the corner too...

While everyone else braces for the economic down-ward spiral to come...

The Old Man always had a brilliant mind which has been many a time the source of wonderment to me over the years. Even now,in his twilight years, he can put most of those on the Malaysian scene to shame, and a fight the remainder on equal terms.

In this matter of the Labu LCCT, I concur with him. There is serious cause for the government to hear the rakyat's voices and review the approval granted for the LCCT. Likely that ada yang tak kena lah.

But while I concur with Dr M on this issue, I also wonder whether he had missed "hearing voices" in the past.

IPPs? Toll concession contracts? Bakun? Perwaja? Privatisation of Tenana Nasional, Telekom, Pos Malaysia, the water supply system? Putrajaya? The Crooked Bridge? Proton? Renong? MAS at RM8 per share?

Minor point - the SimeDarby Watch graphics of the mousetrap with the labu bait appears to be somewhat inapproproate. The trap shown has already been sprung and the labu bait is on the wrong side of the spring (not on the bait platform). Such an arrangement would mean that the mousetrap is toothless, with the bait being easy pickings for the approaching mouse. Or was that the intended message all along?

The old man also built Perwaja, the longest steel mill in the world, from Kemaman to Gurun. Putrajaya , the capital and supposedly pride of malaysia without proper car parks. Is he expecting government servants to walk to work everyday. Thank god, he's out before the crooked bridge is built

The govt has been giving KLIA RM1 Billion a year to keep it going.

Yet if we understand from Fernandez of AirAsia, KLIA's 55 docking bays are insufficient for its needs which was the reason why LCCT will also be unable to host AirAsia's demand by 2011. That's just a two-year window.

If we also understand from KLIA Holdings, they are open to AirAsia docking in KLIA. What was left unsaid was the rate that KLIAH will charge AA for each passenger.

If the rate is the same as that for MAS and other premium airlines, then AA will have to raise its ticket price. Possibly beyond low-cost level, therefore breaking its business model. But can KLIAH charge a lower rate to AA and not to the other airlines when passengers from both will be using the same terminal facilities?

So, you don't use an aerobridge for AA passengers. But if buses, where do they ingress/outgress, and, unless you bus them directly to/from main terminal/airplane, how can those flimsy aerotrains last five minutes?

That's probably why AA wants Labu for itself - to get away from KLIAH.

So the subterranean problem is not about AA using KLIA or KLIAH not being able to parcel KLIA for two-level airlines. It's all about the two not wanting to cooperating with each other.

On that personal gripe basis, millions of passengers are going to suffer from now on. Including tax-payers, for all the meaning of 'private finance initiative' read 'piratisation' again. In this country, that word has a trademark. It's the alphabet between L and N. Or is that now between A and C?

Whatever.

Meanwhile there are things to learn from the CICC of JB. It's not pedestrian nor traffic easy. In fact the problems of the old customs complex have been multiplied by this RM1 Billion complex - for both people who walk and people who drive.

How's that for progress?

So using the CICC paradigm, you have an AA passenger decanting with a bad back from sitting upright on a longhaul flight with an unshiftable seat and he's running around trying to find his luggage (if AA is in KLIA) or lugging it/them all over the place, into the bus to Labu, out from it, into the Labu check-in, etc. Or reverse, if coming in for a connecting flight.

There are three other players in the background. SD for its IJN PR mess, and NS for their wanting a project, and those brokers (for or against, it doesn't matter).

In the end, the passengers and your money get toasted.

Forever.

initial cost of building KLIA was way too expensive and due to this, KLIA is not viable as a business unit. hence any request from its customers will require further government aid, which means more bereaucracy in decision making. Also a KLIA has less traffic, it cannot compete on pricing with Changi nor bangkok. So we should not have spent RM10 billion to build KLIA in the first place. A more humble airport would have been cheaper to manage and easy on everyone's pocket. If Airasia moved to Labu, KLIA will have even more problems paying off its debt burden.