An Indian Airline Is Hiring All Female Flight Attendants To Save Money On Fuel

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A private Indian airline has decided to recruit only female flight attendants in future as its aircraft will burn less fuel carrying them than their heavier male counterparts.

The low cost carrier Go Air maintains that deploying air hostesses, who on average weigh 33-44 lbs less than male stewards, will help it save around Rs30 million ($499,000) per year in fuel costs.

Airline official's estimate that every extra kilogram (2.2lbs) a commercial aircraft carries costs it an additional Rs3 per flight hour.


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1. India not being the home of big people anyway...

This sounds more like an attempt to return to days of old (when flight attendants were requred to be female and never married...American did a tongue in cheek complaint ad asking the customers to quit marrying the stewardesses) than an attempt to save fuel, because anyone who's stayed in a hotel for the last 30 years can attest there are lots of smallish Hindu men.

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2. The fair way to do this would be to set a maximum weight requirement, like jockeys.

Weighing less than say 60 kilos could be a condition of employment for both males and females.

There are some ethnic groups in India where many men would meet this requirement.