Air India Wins Legal Battle With ‘Fat’ Flight Attendants

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  06.09.08 | 12:56 PM ET

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.

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Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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