{"id":1669,"date":"2012-08-12T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2012-08-12T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:53:53","slug":"new-crew-requirements-to-be-opposed-by-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2012\/08\/new-crew-requirements-to-be-opposed-by-body.html","title":{"rendered":"New crew requirements to be opposed by body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Mumbai<\/span>: The All India Cabin Crew Association (AICCA) now plans to protest against the latest medical guidelines stipulated by the Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for cabin crewmembers, according to sources in Air India. The circular, issued on July 24, has now set new parameters and a slew of mandatory medical tests during induction for cabin crewmembers below and above 40 years of age. He added that they would also contemplate legal recourse if required.<br \/>\nThe official said that the reason behind AICCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s protest were the weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and waist-hip ratio requirements which most members of the AICCA, who are predominantly Air India staffers, would fail. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Private airlines, by virtue of the nature of their ownership, can strictly enforce the weight and hip-size stipulations, particularly for female cabin crewmembers.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">11\/08\/12 Parth Satam<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianage.com\/mumbai\/new-crew-requirements-be-opposed-body-878\" target=\"_blank\">\/Asian Age<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The All India Cabin Crew Association (AICCA) now plans to protest against the latest medical guidelines stipulated by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}