In a note written by the chief executive of Pakistan's Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the flight crew discovered a weight loss plan showing the weight that stewards and air hostesses had to lose by July. West-France , quoting Pakistani media outlet AryNews , said employees who do not follow the new directive will be on the ground.
Lose 2.5 kg per month until July 1st. "To ensure all international flights, management has decided to gradually reduce any excess weight from 13 kg to 0 kg per person in the coming months," says this directive. The company requires a weight loss of about 2.5 kg per month until July 1. "If a flight crew is overweight 13 kg or more, based on the weight requested, he will be taken to the ground and summoned to the company's medical center for evaluation and treatment until he is able to lose weight. to achieve the required Body Mass Index (BMI) ". Pakistan International Airlines also indicates that its flight crew will be regularly invited to pass on the scale and that the results will be transmitted to the management.
A company called a "black hole" in Pakistan. The flight crew would have reacted strongly to this announcement, arguing the difficulty of their job to lose weight. According to the American newspaper Journal Post , they would not exclude to challenge this directive in court. Described as a "black hole" by the Pakistani Finance Minister, the airline has already been talked about in the past. Last December, management discovered that fifty of its employees had fake degrees. In 2016, Pakistan International Airlines had sacrificed a goat next to a plane to ward off bad luck after the crash of one of its aircraft. Regularly, PIA is the subject of investigations for drug trafficking.