India’s largest budget carrier, IndiGo, is the first airline to trial a feature that lets female passengers book seats next to other women to avoid sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with a man in a move designed to make flying more comfortable for female passengers, according to a CNBC report.
The airline’s booking process is fairly standard except for the seat map which highlights seats occupied by women with the color pink. This information is not visible to male passengers, according to the airline, CNBC reported. IndiGo did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s request for comment on the new feature.
I wish this existed but for avoiding having to sit near children.
Unfortunately, kids can’t go in the cargo hold. Something about needing air and warmth.
Overhead?
Restraints and a gag
They put dogs down there.
Just poke some air holes in the overhead cabin, bingo.
They could, the cargo hold is pressurized, if you fly with animals like a dog, they go in the cargo hold too. Just dont forget to give them something to eat on long flights
I rather have a toddler continously kick my seat on a long haul flight than dealing with a overly “friendly” and intrusive guy who thinks its his right to bother me for 12 hours because I’m stuck there.
Or us fatties.
Would definitely pay extra for this.
I don’t see the issue here. Most other indian transport has female sections. That is a normal part of public transportation there.
They do not “segregate”. Its not like the whole plane is split into male and female zones. They just saying “Hey, if you feel more comfortable sitting with women, we got you.”
I would probably not chose it on purpose, but i can see, how it can be a more relaxed experience for other women.
I also imagine for some women, the idea of getting plunked in a middle seat between two potentially creepy guys is a source of anxiety.
“They do not segregate, all they do is segregate”
This meant IndiGo Air and their new seating policy.
You don’t have to make a fundamental discussion about it on how you perceive and generalised indian society.
I would rather not sit next to a fat person if i had the choice
Sorry bro :(
If the seats had more space like they used to a long time ago, nobody would care. I blame the airlines.
Everything going ok India?
TBH even as a man I’d prefer to sit not with other men. They are bigger, for one thing. And overall less considerate, though of course they have no monopoly on that.
Though I’m sure the women wouldn’t want to sit near a man who wants to sit with women lol
I want seats next to nobody. How hard will that be to pull off?
I want seats next to nobody. How hard will that be to pull off?
Just be a man on a flight full of women.
(No snark intended there - I’m neither a danger to any woman I sit next to, NOR offended if no women sit next to a strange man (me) they don’t know on a flight - but I definitely see an upside where maybe in some circumstances I get an empty seat next to me that I would not have had.)
Wake up babe, India mentioned on lemmy
only 5 more years before they’re a Lemmywide superpower
It’s really sad that it’s come to this, it’s really bad over there just like here.
Just like “here”, with “here” being where?
Me I don’t want to sit next to a republican.
The next feature they are adding is allowing female passengers to sit closer to any bears on the flight.
The return of smoking and non-smoking sections.
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I mean I don’t want to sit next to a man either, for some reason they tend to be offensive even if they don’t feel like they have to talk to me for some reason. I also don’t really want to sit next to anyone because it feels akward trying not to make eye contact or feeling like I have to say somehing. Most of all though no kicking children behind me. Fuck just introduce boxed in seats so I can fly in silence and solitude. Or don’t, I probably can’t afford travel for the rest of my life.
What do you mean by offensive?
2 times had different guys that smelled weirdly like literal shit, one time ranting about dumb maga shit like he thought he could convert me, the other one just being all around invasive and reaching over me to point both air things at him and adjust the window multiple times without asking.
