Air India has decided to tell 125 crew members that they are not allowed to fly because they are simply "too fat". Reducing you luggage weight is manageable but reducing your body weight is not possible to quickly fix. The State Run Carrier warned 600 crew members that they are overweight and it is not good for passengers flying on Air India to look at. The 125 members were fired after they failed to reach an "adequate BMI" (Body Mass Index).BMI is reached by comparing somebodies height to their weight. It doesn't make you unhealthy if your BMI is high, but it remains a popular solution as it is very simple to calculate. This announcement came after the 600 people were told to shape up did not do so. 18-25 was an acceptable BMI for men while 18-22 was acceptable for women. Unfortunately for the staff members, the average BMI between the males and the females was 26 which means that they were unfit to be working for Air India. This also hasn't been the only time that there has been incidents involving Air India. In 2008 they didn't allow women with a BMI over 20 which was extremely sexist because at the time Men didn't have any requirements to meet in regards to their BMI
I feel that this is very unfair and definitely unacceptable. In Todays society, people most likely do not care about body weight and obviously care more about kindness and generosity. Would it matter to you if your flight attendant wasn't the skinniest, or if your Pilot is the slightest overweight. I don't think body weight matters, especially on my way to vacation. The thing that I could care the least about is the staff on boards body weight. I am focused on getting to my location safely and having a good vacation. This should be a big thing in the news because this is not acceptable. People rely on these jobs to supply their family with food and shelter and they shouldn't be losing their job because their body weight isn't acceptable. Although it may be hard to seem, but some good has come out of this situation. Considering Air India wants their crew members to be physically fit, a member mentioned them to pay for their gym memberships. After that was declined Air India supplied all their "unfit" members with free yoga classes. Air India should give all their crew embers jobs back in my opinion because at the end of the day, firing someone because of their body weight, seems a little ridiculous. It seems that Air India only cares about body weight and just as a former crew member named Joshi Digla, who was fired said "weight is not an infectious disease" which means that weight has nothing to do with Generosity and Knowledge which are two characteristics that most flight crew members have and on Air India are clearly not being credited for.
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