Outgoing Malaysia Airlines CEO Christoph Mueller to join Emirates Airline
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According to Swiss travel news website, travelnews.ch, Malaysia Airlines CEO Christoph Mueller is due to join Emirates Airline as the company’s Chief Transformation Officer, after he leaves his current job in September.
When Malaysian Airlines (MAS) was facing a crisis in 2014, they hired German, aviation giant Christoph Mueller to help turn the company around.
Mueller, in his new role as CEO, made big changes – some of which were painful but necessary – such as huge layoffs, retiring an entire fleet of planes and striking a code sharing partnership with Emirates Airlines.
Everything seemed to be going just right; Malaysia Airlines showed a profit for the first quarter of this year and if all goes according to plan, they aim to be a profitable business again by 2018.
So it was quite a shock when in April, after less than a year in the job, he announced he was leaving due to “changing personal circumstances”, and would step down in September.
Despite repeatedly being asked for a fuller explanation of why he was not completing his contract, he refused to be drawn.
When asked, yet again, during an interview with the business radio station, BFM, a rather exasperated Mueller said “I understand this is a business station and I would ask you which part of ‘personal reasons’ do you not understand.”
According to Ben Schlappig on travel website One Mile at a Time, a close source revealed that Mueller’s decision to leave was driven largely by the fact that he was fed-up of the culture of corruption at the airline and that improvement was not a priority for the management there.
In a recent interview with a German broadcaster, he said that when he joined, employees were sleeping on the job and the company was significantly overpaying suppliers.
There is no independent corroboration of the rumours regarding the true nature of his ‘personal reasons’ for leaving Malaysia Airlines but given that he seems be moving directly to another job it seems probable that the reasons are more likely job-related than totally personal in nature.
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Oh no he has another job no fucking surprise there
Corruption in a Malaysian company !!! My word … Surely not !!! Can’t possibly be true
Think we’ve had the same conversation mate 🙂
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Sha Nurul Al-Yahya
Reason is money money big money …. in business.making more money the aim … loyalty compassion intergrity does not matters
I hope he doesn’t transform Emirates into a low cost carrier model . That would be a major FUBAR. I personally think that the main reason he left MAS was due to differences in business ‘culture’
Malaysian government itself kills this once one of the best airlines in the world…now its another shithole …what a sad tragedy
If the PM & family don’t believe in MAS and fly private jets, what can you expect…
MAS is destined to go down the tube. The Malaysian corrupt supply chain, indifferent middle management and over indulged union. Add to this falling standards, meals are now inedible even in business class, no wine on regional flights all spell a major loss to be funded by an increasingly bankrupt government. I am platinum and lifetime gold but I am voting with my feet. Malindo, even Garuda are better regional airlines.
Best they try to sell MAS to SIA
Best supply all employees sleeping pills n put the company in hibernation
and passengers too, as the service level might not get any better
Malaysia Airlines is destined to fail just like Malaysia itself. There is no hope?
Im so sad said by a msian..
Malaysia Airline was our stepping stone….without MAS we r nowhere…our engrs…tech n mechanics r all round world.
Ravin Kanaga The good old days are gone ?
Yes do agree with u…
And why are the former mechs, techs and LAEs of MH all around the world? Given a chance, I’d love to work in Malaysia and go home to my nearest and dearest family and friends everyday ….. but due to the inefficiencies and, dare I say it, discriminatory nature of the management, we were obliged to make a living in foreign lands. So while, in some peoples’ opinion, it may seem on the surface that we are “ungrateful”, one might need to stand back and think about why so many of the skilled ex-employees chose to leave their homeland ……
James Yap No discriminatory policies in your Brexit land Meh??
Other side of the grass is greener.
Derek Stephen not as open as I would like it to be …… Like in bolehland ?
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In Shanghai. As typical MH389 is one hour late and it’s 1 hr to check in at business class line. If you are in economy many hours. This is taking cost cutting to stupid proportions. MH is not a budget airline it charges full fare. We expect service especially when buying a full fare business class.even when buying economy I don’t expect to see lines stretching around the airport. South China Airways for me next China trip.
Corruption in Malaysia? Say it isnt so…
life i$ $o rough at the top
Of course have to leave! This kind of working environment make him run away!!
A German working in Malaysia. I send you hugs!
Wow
Thevinthiran Thiruchelvam
Untung lar
C wats d reason…stafs were sleeping durin work hours..
1 of d reason
Gimmick la semua ni
Hahaha ,, cos he couldn’t sleep on his job that’s the problem he left .
Adrian Quah
What! Corruption in Malaysian companies?! Surely you jest…
Bagus laa… Next scandals is emirates crew ke!
Harcharan Singh
Woahhhh ?
Not surprised!!
Hmmm. Interesting……
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