Malaysia Airlines boss pledges work culture overhaul after 12 engineers join Singapore carrier

Malaysia Airlines has lost just 12 engineers to SIA Engineering Company Limited (SIAEC) following the latter’s opening of its facility at Subang Airport last year.

The number was revealed by Izham Ismail – the group managing director of Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) – in an interview with local media published on Friday.

MAG is the parent company of Malaysia Airlines.

“Malaysia Airlines loses engineers to SIAEC? Yes, we do but not in great numbers as per the heavy chatters were chattering about,” Izham was quoted as saying by Malaysia’s Business Times.

Online discussions over alleged poaching of staff members by SIAEC, a unit of Singapore Airlines, began after Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke on August 28 shared that 63 qualified engineers from Malaysia Airlines’ engineering arm – MAB Engineering Services – had left the firm out of a total of 411 since January this year.