...investigation has led to further speculation on possible causes and the role of insurance in a loss of this magnitude. Although unlikely, aviation exposures have the potential to result in large property damage and loss of human life. Malaysia flight 370 illustrates the importance and principles of insurance in the aviation industry. Through the application and relevance of Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, this disaster can be better understood from an insurance standpoint. “Pooling or the sharing of losses is the heart of insurance. Pooling is the spreading of losses incurred by the few over the entire group, so that in the process, average loss is substituted for actual loss,”(Rejda 20). This foundation is the essence of insurance and in this case, the key factor in indemnifying the families of those onboard Malaysia flight 370. ‘“It’s not an issue of whether families will be compensated, it’s a question of how much and when’”, stated by Monica R. Kelly, an American aviation lawyer who indicates that a court in the United States could potentially award millions of dollars per passenger in a lawsuit against the Boeing Company, which built the missing jet”(Wong, Edward). This situation is the result of a pure risk, from both a property and liability standpoint. Pure risk is the chance of either a loss or no loss to take place where there is no chance of a gain. In the airline industry, risk is assessed as a pure...
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...Management 110: Assessment 2 1. Case study I choose Malaysia Airline System (MAS) because the whole world is focusing on Malaysia recently and especially Malaysia Airline due to the miserable crash of MH370. According to international newspapers and articles, I have found that MAS has plenty of debts and it occurred because of wrong management. Some presses refer to MAS is able to be bankrupted by the tremendous compensation of MH370. Therefore, I choose MAS in order to revive and overcome from poor management. 2. Contemporary management issue in relation to this article Issue: Poor management leads Malaysia Airline to billions of debt, MAS needs government rescue. Background and context of the company: Malaysia Airline System (MAS) is the home base of Malaysia and it was established in 1947. Nowadays, Malaysia Airlines secures a variety of routes such as Europe, North America and Asia continent. These days, Malaysia Airline has recorded the minus of Operating Cash Flow (OCF) over the past three years. Free Cash Flow (FCF) which minuses capital expenditure from OCF was negative for six years. (Tengku Bahar,2014) The financial issue presses the airline and about 19,000 employees. Key issues for the company: Before being the crash of MH370, MAS already faced their financial pressures, which is approximately 4.2 billion ringgit loss. The disappearance of MAS MH370 boosts the financial loss and it can be a critical damage for MAS. Furthermore, the main issue for MAS is its...
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... The story of Malaysia Airlines started in the golden age of commercial air travel. A joint initiative of the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool, the Straits Steamship of Singapore and Imperial Airways led to a proposal to the Colonial Straits Settlement government to run an air service between Penang and Singapore. The result was the incorporation of Malayan Airways Limited (MAL) on 12 October 1937. On 2 April 1947, MAL took to the skies with its first commercial flight as the national airline. Fuelled by a young and dynamic team of visionaries, the domestic carrier turned into an international airline in less than a decade. With the formation of Malaysia in 1963, the airline changed its name to Malaysian Airlines Limited. Soon after, Borneo Airways was incorporated into MAL. Within 20 years, MAL grew from a single aircraft operator into a company with 2,400 employees and a fleet operator using the then latest Comet IV jet aircraft, six F27s, eight DCs and two Pioneers. In 1965, with the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, MAL became a bi-national airline and was renamed Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA). A new logo was introduced and the airline grew exponentially with new services to Perth, Taipei, Rome and London. However, in 1972, the partners went separate ways. Malaysia introduced Malaysian Airline Limited, which was subsequently renamed Malaysian Airline System and took to the skies on 1 October 1972. It was later branded Malaysia Airlines and continues to...
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...Bluer skies ahead for Malaysia Airlines A QUESTION OF BUSINESS By P. GUNASEGARAM Its huge losses belie a much brighter future if the right steps are taken AT first glance, one can be excused for surmising that Malaysia Airlines is in deep trouble – actually it’s not. In fact a careful examination of the figures shows that it is very close to a turnaround and it needs only to tweak its revenue management to get it to show profits. For all airlines, the final quarter of last year was a difficult one, the main reason being rising costs of jet fuel along with the rise in oil prices. To manage that, Malaysia Airlines needed to maximise yields to recover cost increases. Yield is the amount obtained for each revenue passenger km (RPK – totalling up passengers flown multiplied by distance flown). Meantime it needed to keep the load factor up (a measure of capacity usage, RPK as a percentage of available seat km or ASK which is obtained by totalling up available seats multiplied by distance flown). At the same time, it needed to keep a tight hold on costs, which is difficult to do when fuel costs are rising so fast. It is the airlines with tight cost control and who already have a decent yield that bear up better when fuel prices soar. To get a handle on how Malaysia Airlines performed, let’s look at how it did for the quarter ended Dec 31 last year and then at the full year results. At first glance, the net loss for the quarter seems horrendous at RM1.277bil but of that a huge...
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...distribution (including by e-mail) is permitted without the consent of the copyright holder. The author (which term includes artists and other visual creators) has moral rights in the work and neither staff nor students may cause, or permit, the distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work, or any other derogatory treatment of it, which would be prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author. Designated person authorising scanning: Anne Petrie Module: Managing Human Resources Module no: UMPCYC-15-M ISBN/ISSN: 9780415893701 Extract Author: Rozhan Othman and Wardah Azimah Sumardi Extract title: Malaysia Airlines: Talent Management in aTurnaround situation Book or Journal Title: Global Human Resource Management Casebook, Hayton J.C Publisher: Routledge, Oxford, 2012 Page numbers 299 - 307 Library Digitisation Service Malaysia Malaysia Airlines: Talent Management in a Turnaround...
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...[pic] ACFI 3217 International Development in Accounting Comparing of the performance of Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines Summary The purpose of this report was discovering and analyzing the performance of Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines; and the benefits and problems in the U.S. adopting of IFRS will be mentioned. First, it evaluates the performance of Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines through five ratios analysis which is profitability, liquidity/solvency, working capital efficiency, long term financial structure and investors’ perspective. Next, on basic of part one analysis, discuss the limitations of financial reporting, meanwhile, companies from different countries which are using different accounting standards should be noticed. Follow on; depend on the situation of financial report, using the SWOT methods to analyze the primary challenges faced by Malaysia Airlines and China Southern Airlines. Finally, discuss the positive and negative of U.S. adopting IFRS. Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Ratio analysis of the MAS and CZ 1 3. SWTO analysis of the MAS and the CZ 12 3.1. Strengths 12 3.2. Weaknesses 13 3.3. Opportunities 15 3.4. Threats 16 4. The benefits and problems if US adopt IFRS 18 5. Conclusion 26 6. Reference 27 7. Appendices 36 7.1. Appendices 1—Analysis Current Ratio 36 7.2. Appendices 2—Analysis Quick Ratio 36 7.3. Appendices...
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...Summary Malaysian Airlines System Berhad is the holding company for Malaysia’s national airline carrier, one of the fastest growing airlines in Asia. Malaysia Airlines has three airline subsidiaries, which is Firefly, MAS wings and MAS cargo. Although MAS had provide an excellent services and won many award, they still facing financial problem since year 2002. Situation become worse in year 2014 due to the MH370 and MH17 tragedies occurred. MAS are facing three main problems. First will be financial turbulence. In recent years, MAS has struggled financially. In 2013, the company reported a loss of 1.17 billion ringgit, its third consecutive year in the red. The airline had already been suffering from years of poor performance. The company’s stock price has dropped since MH370 missing and MH17 crashed occurred. A double tragedy of this nature after such a short period is unheard of in the industry, which could deal a crippling reputational and financial blow to Malaysia Airlines Malaysian Airline System Bhd. The second problem is lost confidence of passengers toward the Malaysia Airlines. Due to the disasters of MH370 and MH17, the airlines passengers lost confidence to the Malaysia Airlines which bring the feeling of fear and afraid toward MAS. Those passengers may switch to other airlines such as Air Asia and Singapore Third problem is reputation of Malaysia Airlines be damaged. At the beginning, Malaysia Airlines have a very high reputation and images in airlines industry which...
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...CRISIS MUST BRING CHANGE IN THE AIRLINES INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA. INTRODUCTION Airline can be described as provide air traffic services to passenger from origin to destination. Airlines also can be known as oligopoly market structure. This is because only few firms that involve in producing similar or differentiated product, that is air traffic services. Many characteristic or factor that make airline as oligopoly market structure and ca n be categorized as high barrier to entries. Because of that, small factor can be easily affect and bring the airline into crisis. The industry generates substantial cash flow to repay debt and buy new airplanes, which, like most tangible goods, depreciate over time. The industry also is distinguished by the amount of time and effort which must be concentrated on customer service, requiring a high amount of labour. More than one third of airlines’ revenue is consumed by the industry’s work force. Revenue from aircraft industry can be simplified as from sources such as passengers (75 percent), cargo shippers (15 percent) and other transport services. About 80 percent of passenger revenue comes from domestic tickets, while frequent flyers, which travel more than 10 times annually, constitute about 40 percent of trips but only 8 percent of the total flying public. What is ‘crisis’? A crisis is any event that is, or expected to lead to, an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community or whole society. Crises are...
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...Global Industry Trends & Future Outlook The global airline industry basically comprises of air transport service providers of both passengers and cargo. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global airline industry has doubled its revenue over the last decade, from US$369 billion in 2004 to a projected US$746 billion in 2014 (PwC, 2015). According to the IBISWorld Industry Report (2015), the global airline industry looks set to increase its revenue growth by 1.2% to $783 billion. In the recent 2015 IATA’s Annual Review, we have witnessed good profit in the global airline industry with a strong net profit of US$16.4 billion in 2014. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the emergence of low-cost carriers (LCC) has a big...
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...As an oligopolist industry, airline industry is far from free of crisis that will affect the airline industry’s way in approaching the business in order to sustain their potential ability in the industry. Any slump in economics, political and etcetera will massively contribute to the downturn of certain airliners and in more serious cases, rendering the business and eventually might lead to bankruptcy. Malaysian Airlines have had a rough time in some years regarding their financial stability, and such crisis forces the airliner to change their ways in approaching the business in a way that will rescue them into staying in the industry. Generally, Malaysia Airline will be taken as the main reference on each and every case appeared on this paper One of the crises that came along to strike the airline industry is regarding the increment of the global fuel price. Early in 2008, Malaysian Airlines got struck and highly affected by the global phenomenon, thus marking the year as the toughest year for the airliner. The fluctuations of fuel price which ended up in mass increment stunned the airliner and it took them up to 9 months long before resolving the uncertainties of the company’s capability in enduring such crisis. The jet fuel increment was reportedly climbed up to USD$182 per barrel. This economic crisis had highly influenced the way Malaysian Airlines approach in managing their financial sources in a more positive way. Malaysian Airlines had came back strong after the...
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...September 2014 When a crisis becomes a catastrophe: Reflections on the Malaysia Airlines crises and implications for crisis management best practice By Tim Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, Regester Larkin and Jacqueline Ratcliffe, Managing Consultant, Regester Larkin Asia Pacific © Copyright Regester Larkin 2014 All rights reserved. It is every CEO’s worst fear: an event resulting in mass loss of life that becomes indelibly associated with your organisation. Malaysia Airlines experienced two such events in four months. The disappearance of flight MH370 on 8 March 2014 and shooting down of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 presented an unprecedented challenge to the organisation, pushing it into nationalisation. But these tragic events also posed fundamental questions about the tension between crisis management best practice and the challenges of delivering a response to a dynamic, emotionally-charged situation in which control over partners and access to information is limited. In this thought piece, Tim Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of Regester Larkin Group and Jacqueline Ratcliffe, Managing Consultant of Regester Larkin Asia Pacific, make six observations about Malaysia Airlines’ response to MH370 and MH17. In exploring these issues, they do not seek to judge the actions that were taken; rather they try to draw some conclusions about what these incidents mean for the evolution of crisis management best practice. Before examining the observations in detail, it is...
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...Weightage: 15% Title of essay: On 8 August 2014, Khazanah National announced plans to privatise Malaysia Airlines (MAS) in an attempt to revive the national carrier as it was struggling financially. Without doubt, the twin aviation disasters, MH370 and MH17, have also further contributed negatively towards MAS financials. The former prime minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that the national flag carrier should be privatised as it is running at a loss. The Malaysia Airlines System Employees Union (Maseu), on the other hand, strongly stated that they will only support the privatisation of MAS if there is to be a new management team. In the past 12 years, MAS has undertaken about half-a-dozen restructuring exercises. Considering its current situation, the idea to privatise is seen as a necessity. In your opinion, can MAS turn itself around if it is now to be privatised? Why or why not? Justify your stand and support your arguments with reasons and examples. You should write between 600 and 650 words. Instructor: Mrs Anuratha Murugagoo On 8 August 2014, Khazanah Nasional Berhad (“Khazanah”) proposed an official petition to the Board of Directors of Malaysian Airline System Berhad (“MAS”) to handle a particular capital cutback and refund apply (“Proposed SCR”) of MAS’ ordinary shares. It shows the strategies of Khazanah National to privatise Malaysia Airlines (MAS) in an effort to recover the federal carrier while it was striving financially. Privatisation can...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 INTRODUCTION After the separation of Malaysian Airlines and Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airline System was founded in 1972. Singapore Government and Malaysian Government decided to run their own carriers separately. Singapore airline completely separated from Malaysia Airlines on October 1, 1972. Due to the popularity of MSA brand, the Malaysian Government decided to swap one letter and name the airline as the Malaysian Airline System or MAS. The airline changed its name to Malaysia Airlines in the year 1982. Malaysia Airlines started its business with a squadron of Fokker F27 Turboprop Aircraft. The airline soon started to operate jets such as Boeing 707 and Boeing 737-200. The airline got its DC-10 jets in 1976, enabling the long international service. Airbus A300 was also included in its fleet as well as A310 for a short while. Malaysia Airline System (MAS) handled its primary centre out of Kuala Lumpur. The Airline operated to over 34 regional destinations and over 45 International cities. There were many Malaysia Airline accidents in the past years which resulted in a high financial and economical crisis as well as union breakdown. In 2009, MAS had 2 notable accidents; one of them included passenger casualties and deaths. Malaysia Airlines flight 653 was hijacked and crashed in the year 1977 at Tanjung Kupang, killing all 100 passengers as well as crew on board. Malaysia Airlines Flight 684, in the year 1983, was an Airbus A300 which fell short of the runway...
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...IMC campaign for MAS airlines Malaysian Airlines System Berhad is the holding company for Malaysia’s national airline carrier, one of the fastest growing airlines in Asia. Malaysia Airlines has three airline subsidiaries, which is Firefly, MAS wings and MAS cargo. Although MAS had provide an excellent services and won many award, they still facing financial problem since year 2002. Situation become worse in year 2014 due to the MH370 and MH17 tragedies occurred. MAS are facing three main problems. First will be financial turbulence. In recent years, MAS has struggled financially. In 2013, the company reported a loss of 1.17 billion ringgit, its third consecutive year in the red. The airline had already been suffering from years of poor performance. The company’s stock price has dropped since MH370 missing and MH17 crashed occurred. A double tragedy of this nature after such a short period is unheard of in the industry, which could deal a crippling reputational and financial blow to Malaysia Airlines Malaysian Airline System Bhd. The second problem is lost confidence of passengers toward the Malaysia Airlines. Due to the disasters of MH370 and MH17, the airlines passengers lost confidence to the Malaysia Airlines which bring the feeling of fear and afraid toward MAS. Those passengers may switch to other airlines such as Air Asia and Singapore Third problem is reputation of Malaysia Airlines be damaged. At the beginning, Malaysia Airlines have a very high reputation and images...
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...SGA 848A – STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Assessment 1: MALAYSIA AIRLINES 4/4/2011 Facilitator: Raymond Wiranatakusuma Student: Thanh Le – MCP 170 I. Introduction Originally Malaysia Airline is a joint initiative of the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool, the Straits Steamship of Singapore and Imperial Airways and goes for separation in 1965. Malaysia Airline today is well known as a 5 star airlines with holding a lengthy record of service and best practices excellence, flies around 50,000 passengers daily to 100 destinations worldwide and having more than 100 awards in the last 10 years (Malaysia Airline, 2011). Vision: To be the World’s Five Star Value Carrier (FSVC). Mission: To be a consistently profitable airline. Customer Value Proposition: To deliver Malaysian Hospitality, hassle free all the way, and in doing so reflect our nation’s highest ambitions. Purpose of the report: As a strategic management consultant, this report is aimed at conducting a thorough strategic analysis in order to recommend the future strategic direction for the Malaysia Airlines and compete in the airline industry on the Southeast Asian market effectively. Table of Contents I. Introduction 2 II. SWOT ANALYSIS 4 Internal Analysis 4 External Analysis 6 III. Competitors Analysis 8 Thai Airways 8 Garuda Indonesia: 9 Financial Data Comparison 10 IV. Conclusion 11 V. Recommendation 12 Strategic Objectives in the next 3-5 years: 12 Key strategies in the next 3 – 5...
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