Nine former flight attendants involved in an ongoing lawsuit with Air India regarding weight standards have been fired from the airline only months after losing a crucial legal ruling.

The employees, all of whom are reportedly between 24 and 70 pounds above the airline’s weight limits for in-cabin staff, had been removed from flight attendant duty over the last  three years and shifted to ground roles.

They were told they could have their previous jobs back if they managed to lose weight.

Peter dropped by the studios of the KTLA Morning News in Los Angeles to chat about his newest book, Don’t Go There.

As you probably know, the NYT best-selling book has created its share of controversy and the hosts were eager to quiz Peter about the best and worst in travel today.

Whether it’s the worst airlines or silliest destinations, you know that Peter tells it like it is.

So check out what he told the KTLA morning crew …

I hope you had a happy New Year and that you didn’t celebrate too crazily because it is the most overrated holiday of the year, every year.

I was in New York and it was about zero degrees.

When I was growing up, New Year’s was like this …

In the wake of a New Year’s Day incident in which nine Muslim passengers were removed from an AirTran flight after others allegedly heard them make suspicious remarks, a Washington, D.C. politician has called for a Congressional hearing into the matter.

In a statement on her Web site, D.C. Congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said that AirTran officials were “ignorantly off the mark” in their assessment of the danger the passengers in question supposedly presented, and that this incident and others like it indicate that airline personnel are unable to accurately judge and respond to security risks.

Baby, it’s cold outside, and that means staying indoors whenever, and wherever possible.

If you want to travel like a New Yorker, get off the main island and experience some of the best-kept secrets the rest of the city has to offer … all accessible via public transportation.

OffManhattan.com co-founder and editor Lauren Matison shares her top 10 picks for indoor activities off the island of Manhattan and into the less-explored boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

Exciting news!

Peter’s latest book, Don’t Go There! The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World, reached number 14 in The New York Times best-seller list.

Click “More Travel” to check out the list and find out about getting your own copy.