New Delhi (PTI): This the final call for all overweight air hostesses with the Indian Airlines -- cut the flab or else be ready to be grounded.

Hopes of a legal reprieve for air hostesses, crossing the weight limit, crashed with the Delhi High Court upholding the airlines' policy to ground such crew.

Five air hostesses, who were grounded for putting on excessive weight moved the court against the airlines alleging that the action was arbitrary and illegal.

Dismissing their petition, a bench headed by Justice A K Sikri held "there is no unreasonableness or arbitrariness" in the airlines' decision.

The rules prescribe different weight limits according to their height and age. For an 18-year-old air hostess with a height of 152 cm, the maximum weight permissible is 50 kg while air hostesses in the age group of 26 to 30 and a height of 152 cm, the weight limit is 56 kg.

"Grace and concessions are not matters of legal right. They are matter of policy and we do not find any illegality" in the decision, the court said.