Airlines fly '100% female-operated' flights for Women's Day

[RamboLiberal]

Air India and Air France are among the airlines flying "100% female-operated" flights today, efforts mean to commemorate International Women's Day.

Air India says it's flying 11 such flights, including on one of its ultra-long haul routes between New Delhi and Toronto.

The carrier has been flying since the 1980s, including one last year on its Mumbai-New York run. Also in 2010, Air India "operated a record 22 all-women's crew flights across domestic and international networks," according to India's Economic Times.

As for Air France, it says it is flying a female-only crew today on Air France Flight 188 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Hong Kong.

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2011/03/air-france-women-crew/146694/1

[petronius]

1. So to celebrate IWD they make women do all the work?

;)

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. LOL! My first thought was celebrate by having all-male crews and...

give the women a day off with full pay. But I suppose that wouldn't be equal treatment would it?

[FLPanhandle]

4. Well, they don't have to put up with male coworkers for the day

so maybe it is like a day off. :)

[Rageneau]

2. This approach would prevent the kind of U.S. Navy sex scandals we've seen lately.

Lately, several senior naval officers have been relieved of command or disciplined because of sex scandals that took place on board their ships. If we want to end such scandals for all time, we need only do what is being done here for International Women's Day," to wit: use only all-female or all-male crews aboard U.S. Navy vessels.

These days, when women can do every job a man can at sea, why not remove the tension and temptation of mixed-crew deployments? Why not let exclusively female sailors crew some ships while exclusively male sailors crew the others?

This same approach could probably be used in aircraft squadrons and, perhaps, other military organizations as well.

[Vincardog]

5. Separate but equal has been tried. It did NOT work