AirAsia withdraws magazine

Kuala Lumpur : Southeast Asia’s top budget carrier AirAsia on Saturday withdrew its latest inflight magazine and apologised for an offending article boasting that its well trained pilots would never lose a plane.

AirAsia Executive Chairman Kamarudin Meranun expressed “deep regret and remorse,” saying the latest issue of travel 3Sixty magazine was printed before the Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people disappeared March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Mr Kamarudin said the article was a monthly aviation column prepared well in advance by a retired pilot, who had worked for AirAsia.