Cathay chief executive Tyler caught sleeping on the job
Corporate executives are known to do anything that would sell their company products. That is why Ocean Park chairman Allan Zeman can dress like a panda, Esprit Holdings founder Michael Ying Lee-yuen always wears his own-brand apparel and Hutchison Whampoa chief Canning Fok Kin-ning will not drink water other than his own Watsons.
Cathay Pacific chief executive Tony Tyler yesterday told aviation reporters that he had slept overnight one Friday at Cathay City in the carrier's new business class bed, when the new instalment was still in the development stage.
Did he have nothing better to do on a Friday night, one reporter asked.
'Not this one,' he replied.
Cathay is revamping the first class and business class seats in two of its Boeing 747-700s. Mr Tyler, we were told, will be given a real trial soon as he is heading for his holiday in Europe.