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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Benjamin Parker

Airline’s new policy to suspend ‘overweight’ flight attendants faces backlash

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A Chinese airline is facing backlash over a new policy that will see flight attendants suspended if they exceed weight limits.

News of Hainan Airlines’s “weight reference standard” went viral on Chinese social media after it was announced earlier this month, while the carrier has doubled-down and defended its plans.

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