‘Too old, fat and ugly’: Russia’s national airline ‘bans 400 female flight attendants from foreign routes’

Russian national carrier Aeroflot has been accused of banning up to 400 female flight attendants from their foreign routes because they are “too old, fat and ugly”.
One attendant Yevgenia Magurina complained: “They told us all that only the young and thin will fly abroad for Aeroflot.”

Another complained at being weighed like cows by the airline which was once the largest in the world.

A group of angry cabin staff has written to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to complain about their alleged treatment, supposedly part of a “rebranding” exercise

Calling themselves STS – the Russian abbreviation for “old, fat, ugly” – they say they are being prevented from flying on international routes, and instead given unfashionable domestic flights.

This means the experienced and loyal crew lose money, and miss out on layovers in exotic foreign destinations.

Magurina told the Russian service of RFE/RL that she had been flying for 15 years and was a senior cabin crew member on international flights.

Courtesy : the mirror