Royal Nepal Airlines recently printed a promotional poster with the slogan "Have you seen Nepal?" and a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. The problem, of course, is that Machu Picchu is on the other side of the world in Peru. From Reuters:
Peruvian mountaineer Ernesto Malaga, who was visiting India last month, noticed the blunder on a poster hanging on a wall in the airline's office in New Delhi. Peruvian authorities requested explanations from the airline via the embassy.
"The airline … offered apologies to Peru for using the picture of the Machu Picchu Sanctuary on a poster to promote their country and assured that the lamentable error has been corrected," the statement said.
"As a consequence, the Nepalese airline fired an employee in the rank of a manager … It is concluded that it was an isolated error," it added.
Link (Thanks, Vann Hall and Greg Benjamin!)
