Cardiff/London New FIFA president Gianni Infantino sent a clear message that his leadership style would be very different from his predecessor Sepp Blatter when he flew to his first official overseas appointment by budget airline on Friday.
Infantino, elected to run soccer's world governing body last Friday, flew from Geneva to Bristol by easyJet instead of taking a private plane, which was Blatter's preference.
He then got stuck in traffic on the 44-mile (70.81 km) drive to the Welsh capital, Cardiff, where he is attending the annual meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB), soccer's law-making body.
"It was the easiest and best option for me," the 45-year-old told reporters at a news conference ahead of Saturday's meeting. "We are normal people and we have to behave like normal people."
FIFA's image under Blatter took an endless hammering because of the scandals that dominated his 17-years as president, and Infantino stressed he would work tirelessly to rebuild FIFA's image as a credible, responsible organisation fit for purpose.
First-class air travel, the grandest limousines and nights in the best hotels would all be consigned to the past as the new president implements cost-saving measures.
"Obviously, there will be occasions when I might need to take a private plane if I have to go to three countries in one day, but everyone in FIFA should be working to optimise the costs. We have to send the right signals.
"I don't always have to go to a match wearing a suit and tie. I am going to see Swansea play Norwich tomorrow, I won't wear a tie."
Infantino said that it was a huge coincidence that the first place he flew to since winning last week's election was Bristol.
After he was born in Switzerland in 1970, Infantino needed a blood transfusion at five days old to survive and one of the two anonymous donors whose blood saved his life came from Bristol, the other was from Belgrade.
"I would love to meet them, I survived with English blood and 46 years later I am the FIFA president, it's a personal story, but I am happy to share it," he said.
IFAB, which meets once a year to consider revisions to the laws of the game, is expected to approve trials for video technology to start next season and also endorse the first major rewriting of the game's law-book since the 1930s.
"I love the tradition of the IFAB, 130 years old, which protects the laws, but we cannot close our eyes to progress and we have to move forward. We have to acknowledge we are in 2016 and we have to be open to change," he said.
Meanwhile, Infantino said that FIFA must make the 2026 World Cup bidding process 'absolutely bullet-proof' because the entire organisation's credibility is at stake.
Infantino, elected FIFA boss last week, hopes to start 2026 bidding within three months after it was delayed by the wide-reaching corruption scandal that rocked the governing body last year.
"We have to get the 2026 bidding process absolutely right," Infantino told the BBC.
"It's certainly the commitment that I want to give; that I will do everything I can to make sure that this happens because I think that the credibility of FIFA is, as well, at stake here.
"We need to make sure that we do everything we possibly can, not only to prevent strange things to happen around bidding processes but also to prevent the perception that strange things could happen.
"We need to make sure that bidding process that we put in place is absolutely bullet-proof."
Every World Cup bidding process since 1998 has been the subject of allegations of corruption and bribery.
The awarding of the 2018 and 2022 finals, to Russia and Qatar respectively, is being probed by Swiss authorities.
On Friday, a report into the bid for the 2006 World Cup awarded to Germany found no evidence of vote-rigging but was unable to explain a $10 million payment by the country's bid chief Franz Beckenbauer to a company owned by Mohammed Bin Hammam.
Qatari Bin Hammam, a former president of the Asian Football Confederation, was banned from all soccer-related activity for life in December 2012 for integrity issues.
Infantino reiterated his position that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups needed to go ahead, regardless of investigations.
"I am a pragmatic person," he said. "FIFA needs to deliver two World Cups, one in two years and one in six years, for decisions which have been taken six years ago.
"There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of allegations but not one single fact, in six years.
"At some stage we have to say 'let's focus on working'. I want to work and help Russia and Qatar host the best World Cups ever, as we always say."
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