congratulations

Would like to congratulate Mr Bram steller and all TMA team for receiving the AOC for the ATR.
Hope the operation becomes a very successful and profitable for the company but until then the management should realize they should have the seaplanes running without any hick ups and personally i don't think the management is paying too much attention these days as they are too busy with the ATR.

Ranjit please start paying the money you took from the pilots when they got sick, there is no reason for you in the first place to do that since they all had there medical certificates , maybe TMA is not operated in the Maldives since what you are doing in illegal according to the labor law or maybe you like all the pilots demand and go back to the monthly salary .

Bram we no you are busy working hard to start the ATR ASAP but please solve this medical problem before this becomes bad as everybody is very unhappy.TMA is your greatest success as you are waiting restlessly to start A whole new operation we are also waiting for that day......................... please solve the problem before that.

HAPPY LANDING

For Zorro

Eagleeye said...
Look guys, for GOD SAKE, at least this time all u guys stick your thick head together i will do anything i mean anything to get a pay raise. I don't care if it is a strike or even what ever as a team pls, pls, step forward and lets do it, i ve had enough now bending for Mangement, NO more, Lets do it. we have to prove it.

Shifan(Kaley)- Prove it by doing it not by only your stupid mouth.

Yaasir- Shut the Fxxk up with ya accent and show what u can do to get a pay raise.
Rajesh- Doud, Don't prove barking dogs never bite.so Lets get down to it.
Fahud- Man I hear u at the resort at the cafe at ya house, even in d phone why not to the management??

Mode- If u ve d guts to go to a sex shop and ask for a pump why can't u stop yuppin in d cockpit and yell at Mamgemnet.
IBU- U did the right thing by dunloping ur mouth b4 u got fired.

Eric- I admire you
ROD- I see changes keep it up.

Roger- U should ve thought twice b4 skippin on that rope, too bad no Medical pay for u. now show ur anger.

Ishan - If u think ur resume will look good now then get out, if not talk in behalf of us without 2 timing with the management.

Haisham- Poor u you, get your ATP get out, thats all u are capable of.
Hamza - U did the right thing by opening slip on. Cz ur retirement is on the horizon. i know u will never step forward.

Manik - was a hero.

Faizer-Machaang Enough with your fake accent and trust me if you think women are after u thats cuz all our company women are whores.

Abo - U never did, U never will Step forward.

Shah- Fancy car and a woman, doesn't mean u don't belong here.

Then the Juniors think U have a future ahead.
ME - I swear on my balls i will step forward very soon, U can call me ZORO....

July 20, 2007 9:21 PM


Eagleeye said...
To Kee Kuranee Dho

Can u pls Post my previous comment on the main wall, I am sure it will wake all of us for a better future.

Thanks
Zoro
Eagleeye

July 20, 2007 10:07 PM

ZAAthee

It is true that everything is personal. You start your life as a baby and you prefer some shiny toy when another baby might prefer the noisy one.

The now so famous "blue and yellow" ATR has brought out the "preferences" in the Maldivian pilots like never before. Is it because TMA pays more? Or is it because IAS guys are so frustrated with the situation they were in few months back? Maybe the twin otter flying is becoming too boring for some senior Maldivian pilots? The bags just keep getting heavier don't they? Everybody will have their own reasons.

One thing is for sure though: The ATR will be operated by TMA and TMA will be managed by the same management.

The Same Management Who:

1. Is refusing the pilots their medical pay. Any days applied as sick leave is not being paid for. The genius behind this concept is CFO Ranjit who is so shit scared of the Tamil Tigers back home he has a standing order of $1500 from his account to some account in UK named under V. Prabakaran
The pilots are ofcourse are keeping silent on this matter yet because they have been assured by Ishan he will try his best to reform this policy which he himself and many others believe is against the Maldivian Employment Regulation published in http://www.employment.gov.mv/Resources/Employment_Regulation.pdf
Two of the pilots were docked more than 2 weeks pay because they couldn't report to work as they were unfortunately infected with chicken pox.
Msg. to Ishan: This cannot go on for long... Remember how you reacted when the management tried to discriminate you and other Maldivians on 5 and 1? We, the pilots are planning a similar "action" on a pre-concluded date.

2. HAVE FAILED TO LIFT THE ATR OF ITS WHEELS FOR MORE THAN 2 MONTHS RUNNING.
Anybody who has read more than 2 articles on this blog must know by now that Bram is just a dictator and he doesn't care much for his management team's views or suggestions. Unless ofcourse these views and suggestions are similar to his own.
Bram was well informed about the requirements for the AOC and yet he went against his management and brought the airplane to Male' in a rush just to please the board of directors. What did his management team do? Just kept quiet.
I think keeping quiet is the best thing they do when it comes to Bram.

3. DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT AVIATION.
Lets start with the MD, Bram Steller, a commercially driven, highly marketing man who keeps a thick blanket over the real picture beneath. The first thing that he did when he joined TMA was to paint the bodies of the old, rusty twin otters with flashy yellow colors to attract the tourists. Who knew that absolutely nothing was done "underneath" and the planes are in the same condition or worse after more than 3 years of the dictator's reign.

History: Year 2000 BRAM STELLER director for sales, marketing and service delivery at Kenya Airways.
Year 2004 Mr Bram Steller, Executive Vice-President (Commercial), JetAirways
Bram Steller was also Vice President (Commercial) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Did you notice the word "commercial" or "marketing" in his title? Why in god's name is a a person with such "commercial" background filling the position of Managing Director of an airline with such a unique operation?

I guess now you won't be so surprised if he asks "..why do the pilots land the airplanes on one float on windy days?"

Director Marketing and Sales, Ahemd Latheef. "Serial Number Plate". Do I need to say more?

Chief Finance Officer, Ranjit Kumar. Not his favourite but still one of Bram's puppets. He was just an accountant when first joined TMA and now he is the CFO in a short time. Poor guy doesn't know anything about management and he is incharge of HR. He is screwing up so much because he just doesn't know anything but accounts. For him employee's medical leave has to be a "simultaneous equation" or a "balanced audit sheet". The guy can think only in numbers.

Flight Operations Manager, Mohamed Mansoor. Paid less than his subordinates and yet follows MD's every instruction to the last word. "Keeping his mouth shut" is what he does best when it comes to any situation. Some of the IAS guys thinks Mansoor can deliver what he is promising them to fly the ATR. Good luck guys! By the way, I hope you know who the favourite puppet is?

Safety Manager, Ibrahim Khalid. Perhaps the man with most potential on Bram's management team. If only he would get of his butt and do his job once in a while!! Has anybody ever seen him get onto an aircraft unless he is actually going on a trip? Has he actually talked to any of the pilots (except Ishan) unless the cause is for investigating and incident? I think we have the most passive safety manager of all time. The only time he is seen working hard is when a cabin attendant accidentally drops a bag in the water.

And finally, our boss, Deputy Chief Pilot, Hussain Ishan. Chief Pilot? Acting Chief Pilot? Training Captain? DCP? Line Captain? Line indoc Captain? Dude, how many jobs do you have? No wonder people say you try to show that you are "Mr. Nice Guy". Anyway we all know that you are just filling that seat(s) so that you can get an easy ticket onto the ATR. Hope this article doesn't ruin it for you.

I better stop writing or else nobody is going to read because this is getting wat too looong!

So remember, Everything IS Personal!!

The Last Option

Hey gang! Sorry for letting you down by not updating for a while. Here we go...

This afternoon was a happy afternoon for all of us. The weather was good, all the flights were on time, there were no aircraft hiccups(no! Fahud was flying!), Razee was having lunch at Riyaa cafe...

RAZEEE????
YES!!
MAHMOOD RAZEE???
YESSS!!
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATION?
YESSSSS!!

Not only him. He was joined most of his deputies and other high ranking officials of CAD. They were having lunch/meeting with Bram and his regular crony Latheef, favourite puppet Mansoor and some middle managers.

It seems Bram has run out of options and chose to go the "easy route". Well bribe is not such a bad thing as it is a normal practice in this pat of he world as Mr. Latheef puts it. I guess what Mr. Latheef doesn't realize is "safety is not expensive, but an accident is." Brothers and sisters, this is exactly what happens when airlines and the Authorities join forces and "cut corners". Maybe Mr. Razee doesn't watch the immensely successful show on National Geographic. Aircrash Investigations. Three out of every five episodes conclude that the main causal factors were because of airline negligence towards regulations. I forgot!! It's the airlines who write the regulations in this part of the world right Mr. Latheef?

We would be very happy to see the blue and yellow plane soar the skies soon. But how soon and at what cost and consequence? I do not believe RUSHING to a deadline should be TMA's goal in this case. Haven't we learnt any lesson from what happened to the Bell 212 helicopter that MAT started flying in a blink of an eye?

Visit

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001212X20254&key=1

I would hate to see Mr. Razee's name under another accident investigation report.

Anyways, always remember boys and girls, that it's not the airplanes that get older. Its the serial number plate.

Kee Kuranee Dho