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[PillarEN]

(saw this today but the news is a couple days older)
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Congratulations to Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao who is about to become Vietnam's first billionaire woman.

She is the CEO and founder of VietJet famous for embracing the bikini clad models on her airline (as well as calendars).

With the initial public offering of Vietnam’s only privately-owned airline, Thao is set to have a net worth exceeding $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making her the country’s first woman billionaire. The majority of her wealth is derived from her stake in VietJet and her holdings in Dragon City, a 65-hectare real estate development in Ho Chi Minh City.

"You have the right to wear anything you like, either the bikini or the traditional ao dai," she said, referring to the traditional long tunic worn over loose pants. "We don’t mind people associating the airline with the bikini image. If that makes people happy, then we are happy."

VietJet will probably surpass national carrier Vietnam Airlines as the nation’s biggest domestic carrier this year, according to CAPA Centre for Aviation. Vietnam is expected to rank among the world’s 10 fastest-growing aviation markets in the next two decades, according to the International Air Transport Association.

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No I'm not posting pics, haha.

 

[lucebuce12]

 

[CountAntonius]

No I'm not posting pics, haha.

I'll do it!

Okay that's good.

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

Hooters Air, when?

 

[sixteen-bit]

Did Just Cause 2 rip this off?

 

[FrankCanada97]

But, I like the ao dai more.

 

[jelly]

I was confused. A bikini with air made her a billionaire.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Hooters Air, when?

it already happened a long time ago

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Hooters Air, when?

Already tried. It's dead, Jim.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2006-04-18-hooters-air_x.htm

 

[Skyzard]

I wouldn't use the bathroom.

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

Perfect.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

lol perfect

 

[radios shipping overview]

Rarely have I see a better use of that takeoff image.

 

[TemplaerDude]

Thread title lead my mind to places that were far more interesting than the reality.

Rarely have I see a better use of that takeoff image.

IMO this is arguably the best usage of it in the history of GAF.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Are they only in first and business class? I don't know want to buy an economy plane ticket and have regular flight attendants

 

[jelly]

Air Assault.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

They've been doing this for a few years, isn't it just a show part way through the flight?

 

[psychowave]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

 

[ClosingADoor]

Are they only in first and business class? I don't know want to buy an economy plane ticket and have regular flight attendants

Only on inaugural flights says the article.

 

[Somnid]

So is this empowering or nah?

 

[smisk]

Jesus, why can't every airline do this? Though I'd be a little concerned that they'll get cold.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

Yeah because any woman who wants to model or financially benefit from her looks is being exploited *rolls eyes*

 

[wesleyshark]

Best first post

 

[collige]

Paging Lionel Mandrake

 

[FrankCanada97]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

The irony being that this is happening in a "communist" country.

 

[AstroNut325]

Respect to her.

I guess... sex does still sell!

 

[Mimosa97]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

That was my first thought. If the CEO was som old pervy looking asian dude, the reactions wouldn't have been the same.

If you want to look at women wearing bikinis just go to the beach ?

 

[boinx]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

m8

 

[Kinyou]

I remember a highschool friend of mine talking about how there should be a brothel airline. Who knew how close he was to having the right idea.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

Unless I missed something these women aren't being forced against their will to be flight attendants.

 

[psychowave]

m8

It's not like women have been allowed to be CEOs for very long.

 

[Ultramantaro1]

Might be a little weird flying with the family.

 

[Bit-Bit]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

Not exploit.

Empower.

 

[Angry Grimace]

People keep stealing my idea for Hooters Haircuts.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

Yeah, this is textbook "lean in" faux feminism.

 

[Kinyou]

That was my first thought. If the CEO was som old pervy looking asian dude, the reactions wouldn't have been the same.

If you want to look at women wearing bikinis just go to the beach ?

Isn't it morally actually better to look at women who are aware of it and also get paid than staring at randoms on the beach?

Yeah, this is textbook "lean in" faux feminism.

Who's talking about this as feminism?

 

[ISOM]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

There was a recent thread topic on your exact same post. And the summation of that thread was get over yourself.

 

[Count Dookkake]

A shame this concept wouldn't work in the US.

 

[Netherscourge]

LINK

No I'm not posting pics, haha.

I'll do it!

You're doing god's work, my friend.

 

[Mimosa97]

Isn't it morally actually better to look at women who are aware of it and also get paid than staring at randoms on the beach?

Who said anything about staring ?

 

[Skellig Gra]

Isn't it morally actually better to look at women who are aware of it and also get paid than staring at randoms on the beach?

I mean it obviously is. These women are knowingly profiting off pervs.

 

[psynergylover]

Next up Bikini Uber/Lyft

 

[psychowave]

There was a recent thread topic on your exact same post. And the summation of that thread was get over yourself.

Thanks for telling me how I should feel about this as a woman, I would've been lost without your wisdom.

 

[wesleyshark]

Love how capitalism now allows women to exploit other women for our own benefit. I've never felt this liberated before.

Yeah, shame on these women for choosing to do what they want with their own bodies and their own life.

 

[mooncakes]

This reminds me of the Vietnamese Cafe shop down here where they do the same thing.

 

[Netherscourge]

Next up Bikini Uber/Lyft

Bikini UPS/FedEX.

I'll actually wait at the door to sign my packages.

 

[butalala]

I don't think traveling by air the way we currently do will ever be sexy.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Goddammit! I knew Mandrake Air should have gone with this over the "Sweaty bald guys in Speedos" idea.

 

[entremet]

A shame this concept wouldn't work in the US.

I remember reading that many old school job requirements for flight attendants (called stewardesses at the time) was in fact, to be attractive. Obviously, it was not advertised.

Still relics of it in the hospitality industry. Good looking waitstaff is still an unwritten rule in some hip places.

 

[sphagnum]

Not exploit.

Empower.

Sure thing Jan.