{"id":33817,"date":"2019-07-20T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=33817"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:22:34","slug":"airasia-to-appeal-high-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=33817","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia to appeal High Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Photo Courtney of Bernama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

KUALA LUMPUR, July 20 (NNN-Bernama) — AirAsia Bhd will appeal the ruling by the High Court ruling to dismiss the Striking Out Application by both AirAsia Bhd and AirAsia X Bhd in relation to the payment for outstanding Passenger Service Charges (PSC) to Malaysia Airports (Sepang) Sdn Bhd (MASSB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founders Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin Meranun said the low-cost airline will apply for a stay of execution and challenge MASSB\u2019s and its parent Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd\u2019s (MAHB) actions, which AirAsia maintain are a burden on all travelling Malaysians — until all avenues available under the law are exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would like to reiterate that these legal challenges are not simply a matter between AirAsia and MAHB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the event we lose in the highest courts of appeal, it is passengers especially Malaysian travellers who will have to pay the differential MAHB is charging. We believe that the people of Malaysia should have the right to a fair deal,\u201d they said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The founders noted that the monies being claimed against AirAsia by MAHB were to be collected from the passengers and AirAsia did not collect the differential amount or withhold its payment to MAHB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAHB had imposed a new PSC of RM73 for passengers using klia2 to destinations out of ASEAN effective July 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This amount, according to them, is RM23 higher than the previous rate of RM50 that AirAsia has continued to collect from passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, almost five million passengers have benefited from this lower PSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAirAsia has since the beginning opposed this increase in PSC arguing that passengers using the inferior klia2 cannot be forced to pay the same charges as that of the better-equipped and more luxurious KLIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn that principle, AirAsia has not collected the extra charges imposed by MAHB,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fernandes and Kamarudin further stated that the low-cost carrier has also requested that the Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom), which is funded by the public through the RM1 regulatory service charge per travelling passenger, mediate as provided under the Mavcom Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnfortunately, Mavcom has refused to intervene. We will continue to challenge Mavcom\u2019s decision to not intervene, which clearly goes against the provisions of the Mavcom Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe failure of Mavcom to intervene and mediate is also causing a further and bigger division in this industry, which leads to a big drop in tourist arrivals and causes greater damage to the nation\u2019s economy,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, AirAsia Bhd CEO Riad Asmat said: \u201cThere is not even a binding Service Level Agreement (SLA) provided by MAHB for the use of klia2 by AirAsia, except for a Conditions of Use (COU) agreement which was drawn up unilaterally by MAHB and imposed on AirAsia on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be fair, MAHB did ask for AirAsia\u2019s input for the COU, but none of our feedback was taken into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAirAsia has requested for further consultation pertaining to the COU and is awaiting a response from MAHB.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NNN – BERNAMA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, July 20 (NNN-Bernama) — AirAsia Bhd will appeal the ruling by the High Court ruling to dismiss the Striking Out Application by both AirAsia Bhd and AirAsia X Bhd in relation to the payment for outstanding Passenger Service Charges (PSC) to Malaysia Airports (Sepang) Sdn Bhd (MASSB). Founders Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}