AirAsia to operate aircraft featuring Park Ji-sung

AirAsia, Asia’s largest low-cost carrier, has named Park Ji-sung, a retired football icon, as its new global ambassador. The carrier will operate a plane featuring Park.

AirAsia announced the appointment in a press conference held at the Westin Chosun Hotel in downtown Seoul. Park will be involved in the carrier’s various marketing activities and also be on a new advertisement to be filmed soon. The airliner unveiled a model airplane featuring Park, which it announced to build in July last year, in the press conference.

Implying the Korean Air’s macadamia nut scandal, AirAsia founder and Group CEO Tony Fernandes said in an opening remark, “If we offer ‘honey butter chip’ to our clients, we’ll serve it in a package because we are a simple and kind carrier.” To the question whether he had an intention behind the remark, he said, “It’s just a joke. I don’t want to take other people’s bad luck as a business opportunity.”