The new KLIA2 terminal, mainly used by AirAsia, is sinking according to the budget carrier.
The Kuala Lumpur purposely built terminal for budget and low-cost carriers has only been opened for just over a year, but its number one customer, AirAsia, have come forward with complaints of cracks on taxiways and pooling water around gates, as per a report to Bloomberg.
AirAsia has asked Malaysian authorities to step in to make repairs the airline’s chief executive Aireen Omar told the paper.
“The airport is still sinking,” Omar said, Bloomberg reports.
According to Omar, despite terminal operator, Malaysia Airports Holdings, working on partial resurfacing “what the airport actually needs is a permanent solution,” she told the news agency.
Meanwhile, AirAsia chief executive and founder, Tony Fernandes took to twitter to express his frustration after previously expressing his concerns over problems to airport officials prior to moving operations to the new terminal in 2014, Bloomberg reports
“We should never have moved,” he said.
“I was right, the management of AirAsia was right: You should have let the ground settle, fix it, then move.”
sad that my ceo @aireenomar has to waste her time keep going to malaysia airports to sort something that should never have happened.
— Tony Fernandes (@tonyfernandes) July 27, 2015
Is this to be expected?8 hour delay due to plane slipping of chocks . The board has to take responsibility pic.twitter.com/X7EAt3jvft
— Tony Fernandes (@tonyfernandes) July 27, 2015
The response from malaysia airports that this is to be expected is ridiculous.The board and management need a strong hard look at themselves
— Tony Fernandes (@tonyfernandes) July 27, 2015
A more permanent solution in the form of concrete slabs will be completed in April, the paper reports.
