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Airline praised for Facebook response to complaint about 'short, fat' cabin crew

Friday, 23 January 20153 min read

An airline was quick to respond to a passenger who complained that its flights attendants were ‘short fat girls’.

The passenger had sent a post to Aerolineas Argentinas’ Facebook page saying he had noticed the ‘low quality of flight attendants’.

"Before they were tall, nice. Now they only take short fat girls," he said.

But the airline shamed the passenger by posting a response saying ‘prejudice doesn’t’ fly, we leave it on the ground’.

It then listed the recruitment criteria for its cabin crew, which includes being over 18, between 5’4" and 5’7" tall, high school graduates, and who can swim and speak English.

The airline’s response was welcomed by Twitter and Facebook users, hundreds of whom re-tweeted and shared the conversation worldwide.