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In reply to the discussion: Israeli airline can't make women move seats for religious reasons, court rules [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)32. Your suggestion raises a different problem.
You write, "The orthodox people need to get over it, or go start their own airline."
What if they take you up on it, start their own airline, and specify that ALL rows on the plane are sex-segregated? Men on the left, women on the right (assuming the aisle is wide enough to satisfy the imaginary being who's laid down this rule). Now two non-Jewish opposite-sex friends or spouses who are traveling together can't sit together because their doing so would offend the people who own the airline. To me, that outcome seems less defensible than allowing an airline to offer a mix of sex-segregated rows and open rows.
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Israeli airline can't make women move seats for religious reasons, court rules [View all]
rpannier
Jun 2017
OP
Make the ultra-orthodox person pay for the seat on each side to keep it empty.
SharonAnn
Jun 2017
#36
Airlines may not refuse to sell an unsold seat on a plane on the basis of race, sex, etc.
geek tragedy
Jun 2017
#20
Yet, you raised it being "reasonable" in your previous post. That's why I used that term.
suffragette
Jun 2017
#24
If it's voluntary and limited to just a few rows for religious accommodation, I don't have an issue.
NutmegYankee
Jun 2017
#27