(CNNGo) -- Thai Airways International is catching heat for imposing weight restrictions on its 6,000 flight attendants. Those who don't shape up face the risk of being kept out of the sky. According to a story in the Bangkok Post, flight attendants who don't meet the airline's body mass index and waistline controls, imposed last year, have been limited to service on domestic and same-day-return flights. If they don't comply after a year, they will be transferred to ground services. The 41 flight attendants affected -- 28 of them male -- recently complained to the Labour Protection and Welfare Department that the regulation violated their human rights and decreased their incomes. They were told the regulation is not illegal and falls within the authority of management, which was concerned about customer service.
You're goddamn right there better not be an fatties serving me my peanuts and 6.5 ounces of soda on my planes. If the airlines have the balls to weigh my luggage at the terminal and set specific size guidelines for carry-on's due to fuel concerns they sure as shit better be measuring the waste lines of their stewards and stewardesses.
Not to mention that a Land Monster of a flight attendant would single handedly defeat the sole benefit of the aisle seat. I don't know about the rest of you but I'll take the aisle over the window every time, let that leg dangle out in the aisle a bit, hang the elbow over the armrest. Any time you have a chance to occupy space on a plane that you didn't pay for you have a moral obligation to take advantage. Heffer-Stewards would kind of ruin that. I don't need male muffin tops nudging my elbow as the pass, or waking me up by mistakenly crushing my foot as they bomb down the aisle.
