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Does the Gender of Your Airplane Seatmate Matter to you?
One airline thinks it does
An airline in India is about to launch a new booking feature that would allow female airplane passengers to avoid sitting next to men.
Starting in August, IndiGo will let women check out the gender of the travelers who’ve already reserved a seat, so that they’ll have the option, when booking, to select a seat next to a female passenger.
Male passengers, in contrast, won’t be able to check out the gender of their fellow passengers in advance. Although that might enable certain airlines to avoid some problems.
This upgrade is the result of market research the airline conducted that asked female passengers what would make their travel experience more comfortable.
If an airline asked me what it could to do make my travel experience better? I’d probably go with something like:
Make the seats bigger!
