Budget airline AirAsia Bhd restarted online publicity and advertising this week, a month after a plane run by its Indonesia associate plunged into the Java Sea, finishing off all 162 people on board. AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes had urged a ban on advertising after the Dec. 28 crash of the Indonesia AirAsia plane, which Indonesian examiners told on Thursday was being controlled by the co-pilot when it drowned into the sea.

Fernandes currently told Reuters Television the airline's sales in Indonesia were slowly retrieving after the crash, which was the first involving an AirAsia jet and which cast a focus on the patchy safety record of Indonesian airlines.