Air India Wins Legal Battle With ‘Fat’ Flight Attendants

Well, you can add this to our ever-growing list of ways to get thrown off a plane. Delhi’s high court has upheld Air India’s right to ground flight attendants who are deemed, as the BBC put it, “too fat to fly,” concurring that overweight staff could present a health and safety hazard. Of course, this could really be just another revenue rescue effort from a desperate airline—if the rumored pay-by-weight system we recently wrote about was applied to crew salaries, as well, think of the pennies that could be saved.

©2026 World Hum, All Rights Reserved