{"id":68234,"date":"2012-04-09T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=68234"},"modified":"2012-04-09T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:52:29","slug":"ryanair-requires-flight-attendants-to-lose-weight-to-cut-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/ryanair-requires-flight-attendants-to-lose-weight-to-cut-fuel-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair Requires Flight Attendants to Lose Weight to Cut Fuel Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The European budget\u00a0airline Ryanair is on a mission to cut fuel costs. In addition to announcing that it will now print its in flight magazine, which will also double as\u00a0a menu, on thinner paper, Ryanair\u00a0is also cutting the amount of ice on board and will reduce the weight of the seats and carts. These changes will save them thousands of pounds in fuel and printing costs, but that’s not all they are doing to lighten their load.<\/p>\n

Flight attendants for Ryanair may find their jobs in jeopardy if they don’t keep their weight in check. Airline spokesman Stephen McNamara told The Telegraph: “We encourage staff to watch their weight \u2013 with the motivation of appearing in the annual Ryanair calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds crazy, but some airlines do more than encourage. Thai Airways\u00a0required specific BMI<\/a><\/strong> and waist line measurements of their flight attendants last March, and\u00a0gave employees six months to\u00a0drop the weight. In August 2026, the same happened to 28 Turkish Airline flight attendants who were given six months to lose weight or be faced with termination.<\/p>\n

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I may be in the minority here, and it isn’t lost on me that\u00a0part of these airlines’\u00a0motivation is to be known for having hot flight attendants, which, to be honest, is part of the “fantasy” of the flight attendant (Pan Am<\/a><\/strong>, anyone?) but this really doesn’t bother me much. I can’t think of another job where\u00a0each extra pound you carry actually costs the company money. As long as their weight and BMI requirements are in a healthy range, and the attendants know upfront, is it really that terrible to ensure that they aren’t spending money they don’t need to? What do you think?<\/p>\n

Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extremely Obese Get Two Airline Seats for Price of One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

European Airline Ryanair Considers Charging Fat Tax<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Six Ways to Stay Healthy at the Airport<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European budget\u00a0airline Ryanair is on a mission to cut fuel costs. In addition to announcing that it will now print its in flight magazine, which will also double as\u00a0a menu, on thinner paper, Ryanair\u00a0is also cutting the amount of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[1477,1487,306],"class_list":["post-68234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-airlines","tag-ryanair","tag-weight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68248,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68234\/revisions\/68248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}