Not all Orientals are Asians. To the Romans, the Orient was the area east of Illyricum and Dalmatia, present-day Croatia and Bosnia and included Greece and Egypt.
I consider Asians to be those from or with roots in Asia, be they from Beirut, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur or Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii.
My main point was that not everyone uses the terms the same way that Americans do. For some inexplicable reason, “Oriental” seems to have become a politically-incorrect term in America, for people from the Orient.
In other news (and threads here), it's been mentioned that an Iranian bought the tickets, for the two traveling with stolen passports. Iran is located in Asia — yet the people were amongst the earliest "Aryans"; (a term that has fallen into disuse, for extreme political incorrectness).