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Air hostesses
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Depends on the airline... British Airways expect their cabin crew to have their weight in average proportion to their height. Other airlines are less strict.
Al Italia seem to go more on personality than looks/height/weight - there was a really lovely jolly, friendly and professional stewardess on my flight home from Rome, but she certainly was no oil painting - not even a Rubens.
Back in the 1960s and early 1970s, when they were still called "stewardesses" and were dressed in hot pants and mini-skirts, the attractiveness of the women was definitely a factor.
Today's flight attendants, however, are put through some rigorous training, which not only includes first aid, but also tests how they react under terrorist or hijacking circumstances. It's a matter of the strongest who survive.*
*True story: an acquaintance of mine was training to be a flight attendant for Delta Airlines...one day she was summoned down to the front desk (the trainees were ensconced at a hotel) and given a message that her mother had passed away. She asked to speak to the supervisor to get permission to leave, etc etc, and was ultimately told that her mother was OK, that it was just a training exercise to see how she handled pressure.