RM690 million to maintain PM’s private jet, PKR reveals

PKR's Rafizi Ramli said today that Putrajaya will spend some RM690 million to maintain a newly-acquired private jet for the next 15 years. – The Malaysian Insider pic, March 31, 2015.

Putrajaya will spend some RM690 million to maintain a newly-acquired private jet used by the prime minister for the next 15 years, PKR's Rafizi Ramli revealed today.

He said that the cost including services to maintain an older private jet for the next seven years, the total costs for operation, maintenance and management (OMM) of both aircraft would come to a whopping RM1.098 billion.

"The contract for OMM for the new ACJ320 jet shows that the costs have been set at RM46 million per year. This means that in the next 15 years, when the hire purchase agreement ends, the total OMM costs will be RM690 million," he said in a press conference at the Parliament lobby today.

- TMI