10 Flight attendants of Air India got fired

Air India fires it’s 10 flight attendants, the reason was they were exceptionally overweight.They were firstly made to do ground duty for several years but recently got fired when found unfit during a medical test, in which medical board declared them unfit for duty. In response the airline says they were given time to shed weight but still they failed to do so.

Some of the air hostesses have also approached the Delhi High Court for a legal challenge against the airlines, but it was later thrown out. Weight is the main criteria for being selected in an airlines job and this is not the first time an airline has sacked its employees for being overweight.

Oil companies strike affect airlines

The state-run oil companies proposed strike from 7th January’09. 55,000 officers of 14 Oil companies announced strike on 6th January’09 which is definitely going to affect the airlines. In response Jet airways said “Jet airways and JetLite flights will not be affected by the strike and flights will be operated as per normal schedule”, Kingfisher airlines said they were already prepared to deal with the situation, Air India too said this strike won’t affect their daily flight operations.

On the whole the airlines pretend that they are not being affected by the oil companies strike but somewhere an impact will be seen in the flight operations due to this strike as the time passes by.