Vietnam Airline Gets Penalty Of 40M Dong For Making Air Hostesses Wear Lingerie To Welcome Soccer Team

What football is for people worldwide is what Cricket is for India. While Indians take it to the shopping centers, roads, and open spots to celebrate the victory, the world has its specific manners of praising the triumph of football matches. However, in what looks like an insincere attempt at being innovative and forgetting to follow discretion, an aircraft from Vietnam took the celebrations a bit too far.

A Vietnamese budget airline, Viet Air had an in-flight fashion show with bikini-clad flight attendants. These flight attendants welcomed home the national soccer team that didn’t even win the match. The team was returning from an Asian tournament in China, at which they lost badly to the team from Uzbekistan.

Attendants were seen walking down the aisle, back and fro in a bikini and posing in front of the passengers giving them their personal in-air fashion show as seen in the viral video.

The in-flight entertainment, which a few passengers flying in the aircraft caught on camera, was travelling from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang on August 3. The scantily dressed women on the flight were not Vietnamese airline employees but contestants in a beauty contest organized by a Vietnamese newspaper.

The country’s regulators said that because the show had not been approved beforehand, it breached security regulations and federal aviation. The show on the flight lasted around three minutes but we’re sure that for some flyers, it was the highlight of their trip.

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. But VietJet is infamous for having its attendants walk in bikinis, basically to attract more customers, which is why the apology looks fake.

Now they must pay a VND 20 million ($950) fine to federal regulators for allowing a parade of bikini-clad models who were not flight attendants to entertain passengers without prior approval.