Our New Air Hostess

Our new air hostess is coming over.............

MALAYSIA - Something is cooking.... The AirAsia group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes was reported to have accepted Sir Richard Branson’s challenge.....whoever loses in next year’s Formula One season has to dress up as an air stewardess. I guess he has to serve in the other's flying aircraft...

Fernandes, who is Lotus Formula 1 team principal, said he was keen to see Branson don the AirAsia stewardess’ uniform and has even created a poster depicting this. Mock poster: Fernandes has created an illustration depicting Branson as an AirAsia cabin crew. “Our guests will be delighted to be served by a Knight of the Realm,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Fernandes said Branson, who owns the Virgin Racing team, would be assigned to duty on board a flight operated by AirAsiaX, the long-haul low-cost affiliate of AirAsia. “We will be applying soon to the Department of Civil Aviation to gain clearance for him.

“But knowing Richard, the real challenge will be to prevent him from asking our guests, ‘coffee, tea or me?’,” he added. Branson, while launching his Virgin Racing team in London on Tuesday, challenged Fernandes to work as a Virgin stewardess should Lotus F1 lose to Branson’s team.
Virgin Racing and Lotus F1 are among four new teams competing in next year’s F1 circuit.
Fernandes used to work for Branson at Virgin Records.



in another news........ from the star.....

Published: Tuesday December 1, 2009 MYT 5:44:00 PM
AirAsia settles airport tax arrears after it gets RM25mil discount
By SHAUN HO

KUALA LUMPUR: Air Asia settled its airport tax arrears of RM111.6mil after receiving an incentive of RM25mil from Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd (MAHB), said Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri.

This was the result of negotiations with MAHB for a better package as AirAsia owed a total of RM132.1mil in airport tax as of March this year.

Of the incentive, Abdul Rahim said Air Asia was given RM20.5mil and RM4mil to AirAsia X for a good job in bringing 10 million tourists and contributing to the country's profit.
He was responding during Question Time to Wee Choo Keong (PKR - Wangsa Maju) who wanted an explanation on why AirAsia seemed to receive special privileges on owed airport taxes and what action was taken to recover the debt.

Wee said that disputes did not excuse Air Asia from late payment of airport taxes as it was paid by the public. He also said that any discount on airport taxes to AirAsia should be directed back to its customers.

Wee said earlier that the Transport Minister confirmed last May that AirAsia owed RM110mil in airport taxes from 2002 to March 31, 2008.He then said the Transport Minister confirmed in February that the amount owed was reduced to RM65mil