After a tragic year, can Malaysia Airlines get its act together?

Singapore

FLAG carrier Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MAS) made its humble exit from the Malaysian stock market last Friday with a heavy note of despair mixed with a speckle of hope.

The carrier departs Bursa Malaysia after three decades of a wild ride; from the heyday of notching up record profits year after year in the early 1990s to the painful downward spiral post-Asian financial crisis which it has never recovered from.