Fernandes sings the blues over MPs’ share swap remarks
Low budget airline AirAsia Bhd group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes lashed out at several MPs for criticising him in the AirAsia-Malaysia Airlines share swap deal.
Taking to his Twitter account yesterday morning, he fired back at the four MPs who criticised him in the deal, telling them to train their guns on the rising airport fees instead.
“Four MPs have criticised me. Made it very personal for five years. One MP said I rape poor villagers.
“Villagers could never fly before.
“We have worked so hard to make flying affordable and 130 million people have flown due to us.
“Why are these member of parliaments not questioning the cost of airports and fighting for the people for lower taxes for the rakyat?” he asked in his tweets, taking potshots at airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad at the same time.
Barisan Nasional MPs led by backbenchers deputy chief Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan), in Parliament on Monday, hit out at AirAsia for purportedly imposing exorbitant excess luggage fees on passengers as well as the lack of plans for aerobridges at KLIA2.
Independent MP for Wangsa Maju Wee Choo Keong also fired salvos at AirAsia, saying that safety must come first for passengers in deciding on having aerobridges.
The Finance Ministry had previously announced that the Securities Commission and Bursa Malaysia had launched an investigation into the swap deal.
No comments:
Post a Comment