Overweight Air Hostesses Banned From Wearing Sexy Uniforms

fuller figured women who would like to wear the red dress

Delta Airlines in the United States is in big trouble with The Association of Flight Attendants who say that the recent initiative to stop overweight female flight attendants wearing their bright red uniforms is offensive.

Delta Airlines will not provide the eye catching and sexy red uniforms to women who are over the size of 18 and instead these women are supposed to wear the somewhat duller dark blue uniform. The Association of Flight Attendants from the airline Northwest who own Delta said that this is a clear case of discrimination and obviously they are trying to distract attention from the larger air hostesses.

Ms. Patricia Reller who is the Vice Chairwoman of the NWA AFA grievance committee explained that she was extremely offended by the decision and that there were many “fuller figured women who would like to wear the red dress”.

Delta has refused to back down however and the problem has been put forward for union mediation. Delta said that they had a number of different uniforms that were both “stylish and very functional” and that they saw no reason to provide the red dresses in larger sizes.

Possibly, Delta did not provide the larger sizes in red because they felt that overweight women would not want to wear a colour which highlighted and accentuated their weight problem. It is likely that these women would look better in the darker blue colours which hide larger shapes better, but it seems that the NWA AFA believes that the employees should all be treated the same and have the right to wear what they want at work.

Overweight air hostesses are always a problem for airlines. On one hand they do not wish to offend the women, but at the same time due to limited space within the airplanes overweight women can cause blockages in the aisles and this can be dangerous as well as inconvenient.  In India, the national airline at one point even suspended air hostesses who were over a certain BMI. 

Ukmedix News recently reported extensively on the survey done by Ryanair in which passengers said that they felt that overweight individuals should pay more for their airline seats than normal weight people.