Having outperformed in the beheading leagues for 2014 [3], US ally Saudi Arabia has begun 2015 with a new policy sure to please its Western 'partners'. As Entertainment.ie reports [4], after a number of complaints from passengers about "random males" being seated next to their wives, Saudi Arabia's national airline is looking in to segregating their flights.
As Entertainment.ie reports [4],
After a number of complaints from passengers about "random males" being seated next to their wives, Saudi Arabia's national airline is looking in to segregating their flights.
Saudi Arabia's national airline, Saudia, will order its staff to keep men and women seated separately on flights from now on after passengers complained about the lack of segregation on their flights.
The Emirates247 news website reported that the airline, which already complies with many of the religious practices of Islam including not offering alcohol or dishes that contain pork on their flights, have decided to separate men and women on board, unless they are close relatives.
Abdul Rahman Al Fahd, Saudia's assistant manager for marketing, said that "there are solutions to this problem…we will soon enforce rules that will satisfy all passengers".
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Why not just have separate planes? Will Saudi segregate homo- and hetero-sexuals? How about heavy and not-so-heavy people? And then there is race?
