The blogsphere was abuzzed with the story of Penang CM Lim Guan Eng flying on economy class. Maybe it was not Guan Eng's publicity stunt, but maybe there are other elected officials who flies economy class but were not photographed by anyone?
On a flight related matter, sometime ago I happened to travel in a same flight with a deputy Minister. It is nothing unusual on bumping onto a deputy Minister in a flight but the flight was on AirAsia. Out of curiousity I asked him why he travels on a low cost carrier when the government can pay for his full fare flight on MAS?
It was his party election campaigning season and he explained that it was due to timing as he had to campaign in different places on the same day. Furthermore, the fare is from his own pocket. At least he knows party campaigning is not government official duties! Later, during queueing for boarding I was surprised when his personal assistant make a request to the air stewardess for his boss to jump queue and boarded first!
There was no express boarding that time and I think maybe similiar incidences gave Tony Fernandes the idea for the AirAsia Xpress Boarding for those prepared to pay extra RM20 two-way to board the aircraft first!
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