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.
Me I don’t want to sit next to a republican.
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.
The return of smoking and non-smoking sections.
Wake up babe, India mentioned on lemmy
only 5 more years before they’re a Lemmywide superpower
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 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.
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?
Everything going ok India?
The next feature they are adding is allowing female passengers to sit closer to any bears on the flight.
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.
Not to sure(feel free to correct me if I’m wrong), but afaik Theres a quite big amount of rapes and sexual assaults happening in India so not being forced to sit next to a creep may be a good thing.
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.
How about “we let private companies segregate in whichever ways they want!”?
SINCE WHEN IS CREATING SAVE SPACES FOR WOMEN “SEGREGATION”??!!!
India is a country where you have to be careful not to look directly at men on the streets! Not to mention when you can’t move away for hours.
Sometimes I find the rampant Misogyny on lemmy really disturbing.
Yes but I find all this both racist and sexist. Not all men in India are creeps, even if may be a rampant problem. Shouldn’t they instead try to punish the weirdos?
Okay but then men are allowed to fart openly and take our shirts off in the no-women section while they drink chamomile tea and read thought provoking books about how they are okay just the way they are.
You can have that, but only if you let the women take their shirts off and fart openly too.
Are men allowed to buy a ticket to not sit around nude farting men
Yes, it’s called business. They fart fully clothed.
No. It’s a rite of passage.
Do Indian men have a reputation for being inappropriately forward with women? There was a meme that read “every app is a dating app if you’re Indian enough”
I don’t think that’s an Indian men thing, I think that’s a predatory men around the world thing.
Indian culture is especially sexiest and repressive.
Yes.
As an Indian I’ll say yes, but the people who can afford flights aren’t normally the type of people who do that.
You could look up the gulabi gang. It’s a group of women who fight to protect other women from violence.
Do Indian men have a reputation for being inappropriately forward with women?
That’s a very friendly description of their reputation.
India is one of those cultures that still beats female rape victims to death
It’s not Indian culture, stop spewing bullshit.
Rape victims are treated poorly in most of the developing countries
“Inappropriately forward” is a very polite way to put it. I feel like at least once a month there’s a new story out of India about a gang rape or something.
To be fair India has the biggest population on earth, like 5+ times US population. Per capita statistics would be more interesting here.
With a topic as sensitive and biased against the victims as this, it’s hard to get accurate data - see https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/rape-statistics-by-country
Have you like, ignored every second piece of information coming out of india the last decades?
They have a terrible issue with misogyny, there are countless stories of rape and other forms of assault on any kind of women (and girls). Indians, foreigners, none are safe, even with men accompanying them for protection. One or two guys can’t do much against a rape mob.
India is probably the first country I would warn a woman away from if she were looking for vacation destinations. Followed by islamic countries.
My wife got invited to a wedding in India and I was not invited (long story). She asked the bride if it was safe to travel to the wedding alone and she straight up said “No. You should find a travel buddy.”
Yeah my sister went to India a few years back by herself and while thankfully nothing terrible happened to her, she said she would never go back. Just walking around she said the streets are majority men and they are not shy about staring at any woman (especially someone who was clearly a foreigner). Of course, parts of the trip were cool but definitely not the place to be travelling alone as a woman.
Mm idk about that. Yes there is a lot of violence against women in India. Generally, the Indians flying are not gonna be the ones doing that. Secondly, there is a lot of violence against women all over the world, it’s not just an India thing. Hell half the US political system is trying to give women the death penalty for the consequences of being raped. Or just for deciding they don’t want kids.
Not denying violence against women is an issue elsewhere too, but you would be hard pressed to find such a staggering density of sexual violence, in rather public areas, committed by groups of men for little to no provocation than a woman being in the wrong place.
Now I am not saying all Indian men are rapists of course, but there certainly is evidence of a system wide, cultural aspect creating and enabling this behavior in a way rarely seen elsewhere.
So help you if you’re a lady who wants to be out after 6PM in UP or South Delhi… RIP Jyoti
As far as I know, yes. The Internet has taught me to not bring a woman with me if I ever go to the Holi festival in India. I’ve never been to India, I hope the internet is wrong but I had an Indian coworker who told me the same thing.
Others commented about misogyny etc. in India miss the fact that India is (a) not a monolith & (b) flights are too expensive for 80% of India’s population (yes, wealth disparity in India is that bad). So the men on flights are less likely to grope women than let’s say a man on a train.
I asked my Indian colleagues about this, and they said they’d use this preference for space (not purely safety). One of them also said men smell worse than women so she’d prefer a woman next to her.
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.
They put dogs down there.
Just poke some air holes in the overhead cabin, bingo.
The cargo holds on commercial flights are pressurized and heated. I can’t imagine passengers would take kindly to their luggage being subjected to 0.3x atmospheric pressure at -55°C.
Or their pets…
Overhead?
Restraints and a gag
Would definitely pay extra for this.
Yeah, sorry about that.
Edit: actually though, I wouldn’t mind being seated in something like a “family” section. It really is hard to keep babies and toddlers still and quiet on a plane (or anywhere), and I always feel bad for the people sitting next to us.
I recently discovered movie theaters for kids and it’s turned it back into a fun experience for me.
Or us fatties.
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.
It doesn’t help when airlines split people up for not paying the “don’t get split all over the fucking plane” charge.
Then you end up with kids running between parents and standing all over people.
Honestly fuck airlines for making basic things an optional extra. It costs them literally nothing to sit a family all together.
Every time I book a flight I get so mad because there are so many little things that are up charges that should be default.
You mean you want to take bags? And you want to sit down?
You want the bloody moon on a stick, you!
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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.
I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Every woman I’ve sat next to had way too much perfume, couldn’t sit still, constantly in and out of their purse, and violently flipping through their phone and sighing heavily every 5 minutes because there was no internet. 🤷♂️
That said, no one I’ve sat next to in a 3-seat aisle knows the proper ownership of armrests.
That sounds just as bad as dudes with unwiped asses and evangelical MAGAs intruding your personal space! Poor you /s
It already exists. Business class.
