The former Korean Air Lines executive whose tantrum over a bag of macadamias got her tossed in jail will return to a top management gig elsewhere in the family run company.

44-year old Cho Hyun-ah, who goes by Heather Cho, will take over as chief of the four hotels owned and operated by the KAL group, one of South Korea's "chaebol" conglomerates run by a small clique of extremely wealthy families who maintain a stranglehold on the nation's economy.  Her father Cho Yang-ho is the hereditary boss of the company.

In 2014, Cho famously lost her temper on a KAL passenger jet on the ground in New York when the cabin crew offered her a bag of macadamia nuts, instead of presenting them to her in a serving dish.  She berated the crew, forced a flight attendant to kneel and apologise, and had him ejected from the flight - holding up air traffic at New York's JFK Airport.

This sparked outrage, and KAL was put on the backfoot.  Heather Cho found herself the object of public scorn, and attempts to apologize to the workers on the plane went poorly.  She was convicted of violating aviation safety, coercion, and abuse of power in 2015, and served a few months in prison before a higher court threw out the most serious charges.  

The flight attendant who took the brunt of the abuse, Park Chang-jin, is reportedly suing the company claiming he was harassed and demoted after Cho's abominable created all sorts of bad publicity for the company and the chaebol system.

Heather Cho has stayed out of the public eye since getting out of the slammer.  She resurfaced last month before the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang with her father who carried an Olympic torch through the capital city Seoul.