{"id":181,"date":"2007-07-04T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=181"},"modified":"2007-07-04T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T09:09:00","slug":"suspended-air-hostesses-lose-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/07\/suspended-air-hostesses-lose-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Suspended air hostesses lose case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: Indian Airlines has won a court case against air hostesses who objected to being suspended for being over weight, but the battle continues.<br \/>Air hostesses are questioning several basic problems, like why does physical fitness count for so much more than experience?<br \/>Forty-nine-year old Sheila Joshi needs to lose four kilos in the next three months. Three times a week she works out at a gym. She&#8217;s also on a diet.<br \/>Three months ago she was grounded as an Indian Airlines air hostess for being three kilos overweight. If she doesn&#8217;t shed the excess baggage she will be fired.<br \/>Indian Airlines refused to comment on the case. But all airlines state that weight issues are more of a safety concern than a cosmetic value.<br \/>&#8221;There are practical reasons why such things are done, it&#8217;s to do with safety. You have to be athletic in case there&#8217;s an emergency. And that you will be able to do only if you are in good shape. Every airline has its rules, which is made clear to the employees and it&#8217;s upto them to follow it,&#8221; said Bruce Ashby, President &#038; CEO, Indigo Airlines.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">03\/07\/07 Neha Khanna, Tanima Biswas\/NDTV.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian Airlines has won a court case against air hostesses who objected to being suspended for being over<\/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-181","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\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}