Asia
9 August 2012
Last updated at 14:47 GMT
Passengers filmed the five women on their mobile phones on 3 August.
Officials say VietJetAir had "violated local aviation regulations".
The decision to fine the airline was reached after officials met on Wednesday, the newspaper reports.
A statement on the company's website says that it wanted to capture a "holiday atmosphere" for its new flight route to Nha Trang, one of the country's most popular holiday destinations.
"Once passengers stepped on board they were met by flight attendants dressed in beach holiday attire [who] performed a sexy Hawaii dance," it said.
Nguyen Trong Thang, chief inspector of the country's civil aviation body, was quoted as saying that the airline "had violated the local aviation regulations by organising unapproved show on a plane".
But he stressed that the mobile phones used to film the dance were in safe mode.
Videos of the women dancing for three minutes that were posted online stirred public debate in the conservative country, reports say.
The women, all candidates in a beauty contest, performed a three-minute dance on the August flight
Vietnamese officials have
fined a budget airline for having beauty contestants in bikini-tops
dance aboard a plane without authorisation, state-run media has
reported.
VietJetAir was fined 20m dong ($956; £611) for the
Hawaiian-themed dance on its first flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha
Trang, Tuoi Tre newspaper says.Passengers filmed the five women on their mobile phones on 3 August.
Officials say VietJetAir had "violated local aviation regulations".
The decision to fine the airline was reached after officials met on Wednesday, the newspaper reports.
A statement on the company's website says that it wanted to capture a "holiday atmosphere" for its new flight route to Nha Trang, one of the country's most popular holiday destinations.
"Once passengers stepped on board they were met by flight attendants dressed in beach holiday attire [who] performed a sexy Hawaii dance," it said.
Nguyen Trong Thang, chief inspector of the country's civil aviation body, was quoted as saying that the airline "had violated the local aviation regulations by organising unapproved show on a plane".
But he stressed that the mobile phones used to film the dance were in safe mode.
Videos of the women dancing for three minutes that were posted online stirred public debate in the conservative country, reports say.
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