Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for the London constituency of Tooting, which has a significant population of ethnic Indians and Pakistanis, called the comments "outrageous" and offensive to all Londoners, not just members of ethnic minorities, the Standard reported.
Indeed, as Allin-Khan noted, many Londoners are proud of the capital city's diversity.
Florence Eshalomi, a local government representative for the London borough of Lambeth and Southwark told the paper: "You couldn't make up these outdated and near-racist views."
"I keep thinking, is this 2016?" she said.
The row follows on the heels of a Chinese detergent ad, which caused a storm of protest online back in May. That video showed a Chinese woman luring a paint-stained African man towards her, only to shove a detergent capsule into his mouth and bundle him into a washing machine. Out of the machine emerged a fresh-faced Chinese man.
Around that time, Simon Shen, an associate professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and former visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, had carried out a study of online comments from Chinese netizens and found that the vast majority were "filled with hostility and contempt for India".
Air China could not be immediately reached for comment.