Indian airline gives female travelers option to choose seats next to women
IndiGo Airlines introduces seat selection for female travelers to sit next to other women, aligning with their "#GirlPower ethos" to enhance comfort and safety. The initiative aims to address global concerns of assaults during flights.
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IndiGo Airlines, a major Indian carrier, has introduced a new feature allowing female travelers to select seats next to other women when booking flights online. The airline, known for operating over 2,000 daily domestic and international flights in India, stated that this initiative aligns with their "#GirlPower ethos" to enhance the comfort of female passengers. While the airline did not specify the reason for this option, incidents of assaults against women and children during flights are a global concern. In the US, the FBI reported opening 96 in-flight sexual assault cases in 2023, emphasizing that such acts are felonies that can lead to imprisonment. Typically, male passengers are the perpetrators, targeting women and unaccompanied minors. IndiGo's move aims to provide a safer and more secure travel experience for female passengers, reflecting their commitment to improving overall passenger satisfaction. CNN has sought further details from IndiGo regarding the rollout of this new feature.
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10 commentsSubway trains in most metro-cities often literally have seperate carriages reserved only for women.
Most co-ed schools in India also segregate their classrooms by having girls and boys sit in distinct clusters of seats, perhaps a legacy practice inherited from missionary convent schools of the Raj.
Co-ed hostels are literally unheard of; and no landlord ever accepts explicitly leasing a flat/house to men and women together unless they are related or married.
Such physical separation between the sexes has been a long-practiced convention across a lot of domains in India. So when Indigo says this policy change is "to make the travel experience more comfortable for our female passengers", what this means is that they are trying to make air travel conform to the practices the female passengers have grown up experiencing in other modes of public transport and everywhere else, to reduce friction and needless culture shock for new flyers.
As far as I understand, this is required by law, so Flixbus and other companies had to implement this feature.
This seems a very low number; roughly on the same order as number of people who die in an air craft accident (that is: dozens or hundreds/year, rather than thousands or more).
Total cases opened was 512 by the way: https://www.faa.gov/unruly
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