Low cost airline to save costs by only hiring female cabin crew
Indian low-cost airline GoAir is to only hire female flight attendants to save money on fuel costs.
The Indian low-cost airline believes female-only cabin crew could save it 30 million rupees – around £330,000 – a year because they are lighter on average than their male colleagues.
The company’s 132 male flight attendants will keep their jobs but there will be no more recruited, reports the Times of India.
It also plans to cut the size of its in-flight magazine and only fill its water tanks to 60% capacity to try and make the planes lighter.
Chief executive Giorgo De Roni blamed the Indian rupee, which has dropped 27% against the US dollar in the last year, for the need to cut costs.
"The rupee’s fall has hurt the industry badly," he told the newspaper.
"All major expenses — aircraft leasing, spare parts and fuel costs — are linked to the dollar. We are looking at every possible way of cost-cutting to remain profitable."
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