AIRPORTS are not airports when the runways are not fit for aeroplanes to land on and to take off from. Apparently this is the problem of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 2 (klia2) which was designed for low-cost carriers. This is a controversy that began even before the tenants arrived, the anchor tenant being AirAsia. Flooded and cracked, the state of klia2s taxiways has always been a bone of contention and now, according to AirAsia, the problems have yet to be effectively ironed out by Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), the body responsible. AirAsia is, consequently, threatening to move back to the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang, which it was forced to vacate when the new klia2 terminal was deemed ready by MAHB.
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