Airline Hiring Back 'Overweight' Flight Attendants
Last year, Air India fired ten women flight attendants due to their weight. They are currently running low on crew members, so the airline offered nine out of the ten women their jobs back. The women would have to meet the airline's stiff requirements that will be based on the person's height and weight if they wanted their jobs back. Air India says that by this time, the crew members have been given plenty of time to lose weight. Under these terms, three women agreed to come back to the airline.
On a side note, in August, Turkish Airlines told twenty-eight of their flight attendants that they have six months to lose weight or else they would be replaced. Thirteen women and five men decided to leave under these conditions.
Air India and Turkish Airlines had no right to fire some of their crew members based on appearance. If overweight people are allowed on planes as passengers, then there is no reason why overweight people cannot be crew members. All that should matter in this case is whether or not a crew member is doing their job properly.
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