Saudia To Introduce Gender Segregation On Flights

I find the last sentence very insulting. Can’t wait to see how this is EXECUTED in practice…

I'm not convinced that it was a false rumor. Emirates24x7 says this: <i>“There are solutions to this problem…we will soon enforce rules that will satisfy all passengers,” Saudia assistant manager for marketing Abdul Rahman Al Fahd said, quoted by the Saudi Arabic language daily ‘Ajel’. He did not elaborate, but the paper said it would include instructions to flight booking staff at the Gulf kingdom’s airports to ensure males and females are separated aboard Saudia’s flights unless they are closely related.</i> It's hard to think that specific instructions to separate males and females who are not closely related could be confused with instructions to seat family members together. I have a feeling Saudia is trying to backtrack.

Per this article that talks to the spokesperson himself quoted in the original bogus article, this is a false rumor: http://mashable.com/2015/01/02/saudia-gender-seating/ Please, fix the article.

I think many of us have decided today that Saudia is an airline that we will never (or never again) fly on. By the way, jfhscott, please don't think (if you do) that all feminists make outrageous unsupported claims about rape, or are man haters or have any of the other horrible characteristics frequently attributed to us. I'm a feminist, I just want good old fashioned equal treatment, that's all. I would say women (and men) who deliberately skews facts to support man-hating or man-demeaning agendas are not feminists.

This is ridiculously stupid? What good will separating the men from the women do? Saudia is trying to make a claim about having a deeper level of respect for the Islamic rules (hence the prayers and lack of alcohol/pork on board), but this doesn't follow the Islamic rule, it just puts Saudia on the block as "the world's most sexist airline." If they do this, what's next? Discrimination on LGBT passengers by forcing them to sit at the back of the plane? Segregating people by the color of their skin (with no MLK Jr. to come to the rescue)? Refusing to let people board based on the way they dress? These are all ideas that are discriminatory and completely unforgivable, what the f&ck is wrong with Saudia? Overall, this is the worst idea I've ever heard and Saudia better get their heads out of their a$$e$ before they get their a$$e$ kicked and beaten.