In May 2015, Christoph Mueller was hired as Malaysia Airlines’ CEO, tasked with turning the airline around after they had two major crashes and were in a terrible financial situation. Just over a year later, in June 2016, he quit suddenly. Shortly after the announcement it was revealed that Mueller would be moving to Emirates,…
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I'm guessing they were perhaps hesitant to bring in another outsider considering the short tenures of the previous two CEO's.
Remains to be seen if they'll fall back into their old bad habits with a company veteran at the helm. Guess time will tell.
Its worth mentioning that MAS has never hired an outsider to run the airline prior to Mr Müller, That was in line with the Malaysian government policy of giving priority to the "Bumiputera's" (Ethnic Malays) in all major positions of government owned companies which The Economist called "racially discriminatory" policy! hence the corruption and the constant loss making!
A backward step from an airline going nowhere fast. The sooner they are retired off the better.
Yes I whole heartily agree with Coy Schafer and CR. The airline will fall backwards in no time.
Interesting that most of the comments seen to think since he is local he will be not successful. I think the last CEO have been terrible and done nothing for Malaysia Airlines. When you get CEO's quitting on short notice or not committing to contractual agreements means you hired the wrong person...
Malaysia Airlines never really got better after what happened. I finally stopped booking them a few months ago, I was never concerned about the two fatal incidents but rather I had enough of their joke of a website, it simply doesn't work at all on both mobile and desktop and I don't really see why I should spend more time trying to book a flight then the flight would take.
Their app crashes after the start screen. Enrich is dead, the last devaluation is so bad there is really no point in even considering to collect with them. They fucked up 2 of my bookings when they recently changed the reservation system, charged double taxes, refused to refund (in fact refused to accept it is a mistake to charge the same taxes twice), ignored my emails, ignored cancellation requests and much more. I booked all short haul flights for the next months with AirAsia, I rather sit in a low cost plane where I know what to expect than this endless fuck up from Malaysia Airlines.
As for the CEO choice, it does not get much more corrupt than Malaysia and I am fully confident with the new CEO the countries tradition of racial policies and corruption will live long at Malaysia Airlines (not that it somewhat decreased with the two non Malaysian CEOs).
Tony Fernandez can't believe his luck with this appointment.. this guarantees air Asia and sub companies forever.. buy air Asia shares on KL market..
This will only accelerate their decline. The cronism and corruption within Malaysia Airlines remains rife. The previous expat CEOs had little power as the management that drove the company into the ground were moved from the executive onto the board.