Russian airline bans 400 air stewardesses from prestigious routes after deeming [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 22, 2017 | Will Stewart

[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.'

[gdani]

...they haven’t been communist for about 25 years

Call it what you want - state-owned media, energy companies, banks, etc. It certainly is not capitalism, comrade.

And we are one of the few nations on earth that doesn’t have a state airline. It’s rather common.

And wherever it happens it is Big Government. You can keep denying it all you want.

[Trillian]

My husband told me he saw signs on their airplane that said, “No live chickens or goats in first class.”
No joke.

[Trillian]

LOL