Last updated 13:18 10/08/2012
Airline 'treating men like predators'
"Virgin Australia has been accused of treating male passengers like paedophiles after it made a man swap seats because he was beside two unaccompanied minors.
The company has defended the policy as in the interests of children.
Sydney fireman Johnny McGirr, 33, said he was flying home from Brisbane in April when he took his seat next to two boys he estimated to be between 8 and 10 years old.
He was assigned the window seat but sat in the aisle seat so the two boys could look out the window.
However, a flight attendant approached him just as passengers were asked to put on their seatbelts, asking him to move.
Mr McGirr said when he asked why, he was told, "Well you can't sit next to two unaccompanied minors."
"She said it was the policy and I said, 'Well, that's pretty sexist and discriminatory. You can't just say because I'm a man I can't sit there,' and she just apologised and said that was the policy."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/7454961/
Seat swap outcry moves Virgin to think again
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/seat-swap-outcry-moves-virgin-to-think-again-20120810-23y7q.html#ixzz238sO5uIS
Virgin Airlines Australia moved firefighter from seat next to boys because men can't be seated next to unaccompanied children
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/10/virgin-airlines-australia-move.html
Separating men and children is discrimination, plane and simple
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/separating-men-and-children-is-discrimination-plane-and-simple/
Sex and the single airline passenger
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/editorial/sex-and-the-single-airline-passenger-20120816-24bg6.html
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