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Call it a heavy defeat: 10 air hostesses employed by Air India have been dismissed for being too fat to fly.
The national carrier handed the staff their papers over Christmas after they failed to slim down to meet company weight restrictions, which are calculated according to height and age. The cabin crew members had been grounded for months after losing a landmark legal battle in June.
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