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.
The next feature they are adding is allowing female passengers to sit closer to any bears on the flight.
It’s really sad that it’s come to this, it’s really bad over there just like here.
I feel rather conflicted about this feature.
On the one hand, I really am against any of these I don’t want to be near men/women/brown people/minority, bit on the other hand, Indian men are the worst when it comes to showing respect to women. This ranges from reading the news on gangrape (reading any article you can assume “India” and be right about 60% of the time) to my wife walking on the street being followed by groups of Indian guys who apparently just never learned how to behave around women.
Wake up babe, India mentioned on lemmy
I would rather not sit next to a fat person if i had the choice
If the seats had more space like they used to a long time ago, nobody would care. I blame the airlines.
