ickle.org » welsh stewardesses

So what do you do if you're a small airline, attempting to turn a quid or two in a troubled industry? Buying small planes would be a good start, right? Well, yes, but those lovely new Dornier 228s have one major drawback - being an ickle craft entails

a similarly small amount of head clearance for your air staff. Now what do you do? Why, hire teeny tiny air stewardesses, that's what!

And that indeed is what Air Wales did. They hired a whole batch of new stewardesses under 5'3" so they wouldn't end up banging their heads on the overhead lockers. Now that's a company that cares.

DP