Gender-sensitive seating introduced to curb groping incidents on flights


An airline in India is offering a female-only row of seats in its domestic routes. — Pexels

Groping incidents during a flight are not unusual; in fact, they happen all too often. The headlines read like this: “Sleeping woman wakes up to passenger groping her on flight to XX.”

It happened to me early in the early 2000s on a Royal Jordanian flight from New York to Amman in Jordan. The seat row was in the back of the economy plus section. The seatmate was an air marshal. I knew this because I saw the pistol he packed in his carry-on bag.

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