Student claims the airhostess training institute duped her. She was reportedly told she was too short to qualify for a job on board and was offered work with a fast food chain instead
Student claims the airhostess training institute duped her. She was reportedly told she was too short to qualify for a job on board and was offered work with a fast food chain instead
Garima Mittal missed her flight by just one inch.The Delhi girl, who wanted to become an airhostess, is now staring at a job with a fast food joint. 
Dreams dashed: Garima Mittal poses with her Frankfinn ID card.
Pic/Rajeev Tyagi
Garima had joined Frankfinn Institute of Airhostess in 2008 at its Rajendra Place centre. But as the number of students in her batch was "insufficient", the centre was closed down and they were shifted to Rajouri Garden. She told MiD DAY that none of her batchmates were intimated about the change.
"I took admission at Frankfinn because there were many lucrative commitments. They were offering placements for Rs. 20,000 per month to Rs. 75000 per month. Once I completed eight months of the course, I was surprised to see that the institute was hardly making any effort towards placements," said Garima, a resident of Shakarpur in east Delhi.
She claimed that she had paid Rs 1,32,000 as fees for the course."After completing the one year course, none of the students got placements. Since most of my batch mates were outstation candidates, they went back feeling harassed, cheated and distressed. Some of us, who were stranded, persisted with the efforts to get a job," she told MiD DAY.
When finally she got to meet the centre head, Garima was told that she could not become an airhostess, as she was short.
"They told me that I am one inch short of the mandatory 5 feet 2 inches. Though I would like to believe that the reason I was given was utter rubbish, even if it was true then why would they gave me admission in the first place," she asked.
Garima claimed the centre head offered her a Rs 5,000-6,000 per month job with a fast food joint. "They said I can qualify for just that."
"Most of the students who got admitted took a loan to finance their course. All of us were in a fix. From time to time they also pressurised us to buy expensive formal wears and cosmetics etc," added Pranuj, Garima's batch mate, who managed to get a job on his own.
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