Women can choose not to sit next to men on any IndiGo flight. The feature could attract more female customers to the airline.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    -3•4 months ago

    I never defended sexual assault; I just said that:

    If allowing women to avoid being seated next to men on flights reduces the chance of sexual assault from taking place

    Is a big “if”. In your original sentence, on the plane, yes, it might reduce the risk of assault. But life doesn’t end outside the plane, and I wonder whether such restriction could just lead to increased risk of sexual assault elsewhere, due to a)frustration of the same men who didn’t do it on the plane and can probably still do it in any other place; b)influence of such measures on how abusive men treat the status quo and resist it - thereby negating all the benefit.

    Which is why, if you feel my take “sounds” like something, I ask to clarify first and attack later. This is not a ragebait dumpster, and people are generally acting in good faith around Lemmy.