Running out of stories?

Referring to an article in Malay Mail front page last week which went:

"AirAsia taken to task over NFL deal"

While local sports bodies beg for money, airline sponsors American football team

CHARITY, they say, begins at home. This, apparently does not apply to Malaysia's low budget carrier AirAsia. While its support for local sports has been largely in the form of discounted flights, the carrier is about to splash out millions in cash to an American football team in a major deal to be announced tomorrow.

Baffling is why AirAsia is even pursuing this deal - it doesn't even fly to the US and yet, is doling out cash for a sport with hardly a following in Malaysia.

Equally puzzling is how the no frills airline, which had its early success from strong Malaysian support to see a local airline make a global name, can afford to splash extravagant amounts when it owes Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) RM65 million in airport tax.

AirAsia even admitted that it was withholding the payment unless MAHB lowered the airport charges!

Malay Mail, Thursday, June 25th, 2009 08:32:00

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Swami Ji says:

Hmmmm, lets see...

Fair enough, an issue indeed...

but lets look at it from a businessman's point of view... If you are an entrepreneur and you are to invest millions in an advertising deal (you also need to settle hutang with MAHB), where will you pump in your money? In NFL, which has an enormous turnover? or will you choose to put your money on one of our extraordinarily talented local football clubs?

I mean, I'll leave the judging to you people... y'all compare the quality of local sports and international sports, put yourselves in AirAsia's place, and think about it...

OK lah, fuck it... If you feel that it is still wrong for AirAsia to do this as it is unfair towards local sports, and they deserve to be "slammed", I understand...

BUT

We have to be fair rite...If you are to question AirAsia's action, what about Proton which was sponsoring Norwich City? EPL Might be a massive hit in Malaysia compared to the NFL but bare in mind, the EPL doesn't contribute shit to our economy... and not like Air Asia didn't support FAM at all, the same news article above mentioned that they did give certain amount of financial support. Just like Proton lah... How come Proton didn't make it to the newspapers? Are they that bloody succesful?

I mean, why waste time questioning a private company when a government company itself wanna pancing in the UK?

In all,

Bila logo Proton keluar kat EPL, semua orang bangga... bila Air Asia punya logo keluar kat NFL, bengang la pulak... Macam mana ni?


Ini pro local sports ka Anti America? :P


p/s: I still love you Jon! muaks... lol