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| It is time Rayani Air is buried for good, for having duped customers and disgraced the local airline industry. |
WHEN a Muslim dies, at the last rites, the family members would ask those who owe the deceased to either forego the debts he owed or claim it from his heirs.
For Rayani Air, which started the halal-airline saga and then was ‘haram-ed’, it seems that it is going to be buried with its passengers demanding their refunds from its grave. It should be happy if the angry passengers do not desecrate its grave for the refunds.
Rayani Air had apologised for not being able to refund despite its promises to do so, because investors pulled out when its flying licences were revoked.
"Dear customers, we apologise that we are still unable to make refunds on flight tickets despite our best efforts. The withdrawal of our Air Service Licence (ASL) and ASP (air service permit) were made while we were finalising investments in this airline. With the withdrawal of these licences, no investor will cooperate with us," it said in a statement on Facebook on Tuesday.
"With the withdrawal of licences, the investors who had committed to supplying funds on June 30 to resolve the refund issue has withdrawn from their commitment,” the airline claimed.
It went on to say it is still hoping to be given another chance to take to the skies, so that it can make some money and then refund the customers.
It has now started blaming the investors for its inability to pay its debts and is stating that it is the investors which caused its downfall.
Rayani Air is perhaps the shortest lived airline which thought it was actually going to make it big, and it continues to think it actually has the capability to do so despite its serious breaches which got it into the mess in the first place.
The sad thing is that it embarked on the halal-airline logo to launch itself, thinking that Malaysians (authorities included) would tawakal (surrender to God) and fly it, never mind the fact that the owners were running it like some sundry shop.
They are perhaps lucky that Malaysians are calmer people, and they have yet to have their offices turned inside out and the owners hounded.
Yet, the very fact that Rayani Air has the nerve to even suggest a return smells of something, that there seems to be some cables by the owners and the authorities which seems to give rise to hope that they actually would make a comeback.
The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) and Malaysian Civil Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) should have nothign more to do with Rayani Air - it must be made history for good, but in its Facebook posting, it seems that there lingers a hope, when it asks its customers to be patient.
The owners may not be very smart, but they are not very stupid either - for they would not have been able to even start an airline in the first place if they were the latter. And the owners must have very strong underlinks to the authorities to be able to start a halal-airline (as they called it) when they were non-Muslims.
Even a vegetarian non-Muslim would have a hard time getting a halal licence to start a food stall, let alone this airline which touted on is Islamic-ness and made a mockery of everything halal in Malaysia, only to do the most haram thing in business - which is to cheat its customers, after taking their money.
Everyone - from the ministers to the officers - who signed the papers which allowed Rayani Air to even exist int he first place should be responsible for the refunds. We have yet to know how much or in how many hundreds of thousands the refunds due are in, but what is being told is that the owners are unable to pay because investors have pulled out.
Rayani Air should be buried completely with a heavy tombstone on its grave, along with its owners’ licence to ever conduct any business of such sort, to ensure that Malaysians are never taken for such a ride with such a gimmick using religion.
And if Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai cannot openly tell off Rayani Air owners to get lost, then it is time he too resigned for this is just as scandalous as the Port Klang Free Zone fiasco during his predecessor Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik’s time.
Source: The Heat Malaysia | www.theheatmalaysia.com | By Zakiah Koya | 14 July 2016
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