Air India offers special seating options for solo female travellers, mothers with infants
Click here! “The airline has termed it to be a step under its ‘gender-sensitive seat assignment practice’, and has also asked the concerned department to ensure that no middle seats are assigned to solo women travellers when both window and aisle seats are occupied by male passengers," HT reported quoting people familiar with the development in the airline. “Every flight has at least 10% solo women travellers.
This directive may not be an effective one," said one of the airline employees. “Rather than coming up with such a directive, which in all probability will lead to confusion, the airline should direct their concerned department to handle the situation at the booking level itself," Hindustan Times quoted aviation expert Mohan Ranganathan as saying.
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