Vietnam Airline Fined 40M Dong For Making Air Hostesses Wear Lingerie To Welcome Soccer Team
VietAir a Vietnamese budget airline had an in-flight fashion show with bikini-clad flight attendants. These attendants welcomed home national soccer team that didnt even win their match. The team was returning fromn Asian tournament in China at which they lost badly to the team from Uzbekistan.
Cricket is for India what football is for the rest of the world. While Indians take it to the streets, malls and public places with dhol-dhamka, the world has its own ways of celebrating the victory of football matches.
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But, in what looks like an insincere attempt at being creative and forgetting to follow discretion, a budget airline from Vietnam took the celebrations a bit too far.
VietAir, a Vietnamese budget airline had an in-flight fashion show with bikini-clad flight attendants. These attendants welcomed home national soccer team that didn't even win their match. As one can clearly see in the video, attendants were seen walking down the aisle, back and fro in a bikini and posing in front of the flyers.
The manager has however apologised for the move, but VietJet is infamous for having its attendants walk in bikinis, basically to attract more customers, which is why the apology looks fraudulent. The team was returning from n Asian tournament in China, at which they lost badly to the team from Uzbekistan.
One can also tell that most of the players on the flight are feeling awkward and a little out of place as they did not know how to react. Once the videos and pictures from the flight went public, a lot of Vietnamese expressed anger and disappointment.
"Do you want to rename Vietjet 'Vietjerk', or 'Vietsex'?" Facebook user Ngoc Nhung asked the airline's CEO in one scathing post.
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"Vietjet's move was so rude, cheap, and offensive to the team, the fans and even its passengers," another Facebook user, Nguyen My Linh, wrote.
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Vietnam's budget airline Vietjet has apologised for sending scantily-clad models to join the country's Under-23 football squad on a flight home, after social media cried foul over the "cheap" PR stunt.https://t.co/fhcN8TSNrV
¡ª Haresh Deol ?? ? (@HareshDeol) January 29, 2018
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Major WTF moment w Vietjet lingerie show on flight carrying U23 team home. pic.twitter.com/mchaa9Usva
¡ª Hau Dinh (@haudtt) January 28, 2018
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VietJet - what were you thinking?
¡ª Steve Jackson (@ourman) January 28, 2018
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Celebrating the national football team, VNA vs VietJet pic.twitter.com/igjoNdXBy9
¡ª Khoi Pham (@koism) January 28, 2018
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Chief executive Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, who was Vietnam's first female billionaire, issued the apology on her Facebook page, according to the Reuters news agency.
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It's 2018 and the world is more awakened than it ever was, yet, there is no dearth of people who display foolishness at a global scale. Showing bikini-clad women to woo men is not only objectification of female's body, but it is also disrespect of the people who are doing their jobs.
