THE FRIENDLY SKIES — Vietnam's budget airline Vietjet is under fire again for welcoming their national soccer team last Sunday with bikini-clad flight attendants.<br /><br />The event was to welcome the Vietnamese U-23 football team home from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Championship that took place in China. <br /><br />After taking second place at the tournament, the young players didn't expect to receive a lingerie show as their in-flight consolation. Players looking embarrassed as attractive cabin crew members mingled with them quickly went viral and Vietnamese netizens were not happy with the 'welcome' gesture.<br /><br />Vietnam's civil aviation agency fined Vietjet with VNĐ[b]40 million (r just over $17-hundred USD), and the flight's chief stewardess was fined with VNĐ4 million ($176 bucks) for "neglecting to inform the captain" of the event.<br /><br />Vietjet said the event was just an improvised stunt by hired models which was not part of the original plan and the airline had learned their lesson.<br /><br />The aviation agency said although Vietjet didn't jeopardise the safety of the flight, the whole thing could still have posed a safety risk, yeah, probably a heart attack.
