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Russian airline bans 400 air stewardesses from prestigious routes after deeming [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 22, 2017 | Will Stewart

Posted on 02/22/2017 1:21:06 PM PST by C19fan

Russian airline Aeroflot has sparked outrage among its flight crew after banning as many as 400 'old, fat and ugly' stewardesses from prestigious foreign routes.

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 by the country's national carrier.

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.

One attendant Yevgenia Magurina complained: 'They told us all that only the young and thin will fly abroad for Aeroflot.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: BlueStateRightist

21 posted on 02/22/2017 1:34:58 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: C19fan

I suppose it’s no surprise the commies have a (mostly) state-run airline. Which is now micro-managing stewardess issues. Gotta love Big Government!


22 posted on 02/22/2017 1:35:27 PM PST by gdani
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To: C19fan

As I understand, Singapore Airlines still has a policy that after 30 years old, air hostesses are expected to be married, or they go into back-office work.


23 posted on 02/22/2017 1:35:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: C19fan

STS—Starii, Tolstii, Sklochnii.


24 posted on 02/22/2017 1:36:15 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Pearls Before Swine

A woman we knew in Minnesota working for Northwest had her name ID typed as “O. Miss.”


25 posted on 02/22/2017 1:37:36 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: C19fan
Russian airline Aeroflot has sparked outrage among its flight crew after banning as many as 400 'old, fat and ugly' stewardesses from prestigious foreign routes.

They can get jobs at Delta.

26 posted on 02/22/2017 1:37:52 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: C19fan

I’m calling the divorce lawyer now. If that’s considered ugly/fat, I’ll pick you up on the way to the airport.


27 posted on 02/22/2017 1:38:30 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: riverrunner

THAT’S THE PROBLEM. IT DOESN’T!!


28 posted on 02/22/2017 1:38:49 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: C19fan

Kind of the opposite for Disneyland Indiana Jones ride where all the women cast members for years are all fat??? For years it seems that if you are a fat cast member you end up on the Indiana Jones ride as a cast member.


29 posted on 02/22/2017 1:38:54 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: roadcat

The airlines are like everything else.

Look at gas stations 50 years ago. Total service, windows cleaned, oil and tires check, and from people who spoke English.

Gimme a bucks worth or regular!


30 posted on 02/22/2017 1:39:33 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C19fan

>One attendant Yevgenia Magurina complained: ‘They told us all that only the young and thin will fly abroad for Aeroflot.’

What’s “winning!” in Russian?


31 posted on 02/22/2017 1:39:48 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: roadcat

“Oh, for the old days when stewardesses wore hotpants and miniskirts and were gorgeous.”

Uh,uh. In the old days they wore trim uniforms with skirts, high heels,were nurses,and were gorgeous.

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32 posted on 02/22/2017 1:40:59 PM PST by Mears
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To: DesertRhino

It’s quite odd, no?

But let’s not mistake nationalism (which can be very good if not taken to extremes, like Germany) and capitalism with democracy.

Or maybe I’m wrong and the presidential elections in Russia are fair.

What do I know, I still can’t figure out the ####ing remote, no less the Echo Dot i got for Christmas


33 posted on 02/22/2017 1:42:24 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Snickering Hound

As pretty as that girl is.....I STILL wouldn’t set foot on an Aeroflot plan for all the tea in Vladivostok.


34 posted on 02/22/2017 1:43:00 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: shibumi
The young lady in post 14 ten years later.

Russian women are the hottest in the world but you gotta pluck 'em out of the motherland while they're still young if there's any hope of saving them..

It's a hard life and before long, Nataliya the hottie stewardess is a hunchbacked babushka with a headscarf and a mouth full of silver teeth.

35 posted on 02/22/2017 1:43:00 PM PST by Drew68
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To: C19fan

Evening wear!


36 posted on 02/22/2017 1:43:33 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: pgkdan

LOL


37 posted on 02/22/2017 1:43:41 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Mears

My favorite were the PSA flights. Took them often between SF and LA. They had hotpants. This was early 1970s.


38 posted on 02/22/2017 1:44:32 PM PST by roadcat
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To: C19fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XawRcZWgBPw


39 posted on 02/22/2017 1:48:24 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Pearls Before Swine
my husband's got her first stewardess job at age 59....no kidding....

someday, it would be so refreshing to have men rated hired and fired based solely on their looks, their trim bodies, their good hair, or their sex appeal..

just to know how it feels to be rated on your shallowness rather than your brains, work ethic, efficiency, stamina, and responsible nature...

just to feel as much as object as a lot of women do...

40 posted on 02/22/2017 1:48:35 PM PST by cherry
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