More idiocy in reality that Darla should be proud of.

ZappasGuitar said:
I didn't see anywhere in the article where it said the airline was happy with him sitting in the window seat.

We don't know if the flight attendant would have made him move from the window seat.
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I have snipped this out. Virgin is now reviewing its policy apparently no doubt because of all the bad publicity.

Hi Folks! I’ts Lenore from Free- Range Kids, where “flying while male” is not a new issue to us (see this post) just a new airline: Virgin, in Australia. In today’s story, a man named Johnny McGirr, 33, was seated next to two unaccompanied minors — boys, about ages 8 and 10. He was supposed to sit next to the window, but switched to the aisle to let the boys look out, because he’s a nice guy.

That, however, is not how the airline saw him. When the stewardess came by she saw only that he was — accckkkk! — a MALE, and she made him move. The reason? Company policy: A woman can sit next to unaccompanied children, but not a man.
The fellow — a fireman — spent the rest of the trip embarrassed and angry. Eventually, he blogged about it, pointing out quite rightly that the assumption seems to be that every male is at least a potential pedophile, even in public, on a plane, with people going up and down the aisles. This is what I call “Worst-First Thinking” — thinking up the very WORST case scenario and proceeding as if it is FIRST on the list of likely possibilities. The airline excused itself by saying, “Most guests thoroughly understand that the welfare of the child is our priority.” As if it’s only a deviant who’d question this practice.
But the airline is wrong. Many people do NOT understand this panicked prejudice anymore. The buzz in Australia is that there is now a “public backlash” that has Virgin (and Qantas, and Jetstar and Air Newland) re-thinking its men-must-move policy.
Let’s hope they get it right this time, as British Airways finally did. Making people sit in a certain place because of their DNA is something Rosa Parks fought a long time ago. - L.
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Aoxomoxoa said:
I have snipped this out. Virgin is now reviewing its policy apparently no doubt because of all the bad publicity.


That, however, is not how the airline saw him. When the stewardess came by she saw only that he was — accckkkk! — a MALE, and she made him move. The reason? Company policy: A woman can sit next to unaccompanied children, but not a man.
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Again, it sounds to me as though they moved the man because he was sitting next to the children, NOT because he had changed seats.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Again, it sounds to me as though they moved the man because he was sitting next to the children, NOT because he had changed seats.
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Ok, it depends on the type of plane i.e. were there three seats together or four? I looked on Virgin Australia and it uses Boeing 737s and Airbus A330s. Both those planes have seating plans with 3 seats by the windows. Oh shit, I am turning into Yurt!!

http://www.monarch.co.uk/about-us/aircraft-and-regulations/airbus-a330-200

http://www.seatplans.com/airlines/Virgin-Australia/seatplans/B737-800-14

http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/i...0l&sigi=15gkubjfq&sigb=128ms1rtq&fr=yfp-t-702
 
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SmarterthanYou said:
http://www.theagitator.com/2012/08/...eated-next-to-two-minors-via-free-range-kids/

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...ophile-complaint/story-fn3dxiwe-1226447810854

In today’s story, a man named Johnny McGirr, 33, was seated next to two unaccompanied minors — boys, about ages 8 and 10. He was supposed to sit next to the window, but switched to the aisle to let the boys look out, because he’s a nice guy.

That, however, is not how the airline saw him. When the stewardess came by she saw only that he was — accckkkk! — a MALE, and she made him move. The reason? Company policy: A woman can sit next to unaccompanied children, but not a man.

The fellow — a fireman — spent the rest of the trip embarrassed and angry. Eventually, he blogged about it, pointing out quite rightly that the assumption seems to be that every male is at least a potential pedophile, even in public, on a plane, with people going up and down the aisles. This is what I call “Worst-First Thinking” — thinking up the very WORST case scenario and proceeding as if it is FIRST on the list of likely possibilities. The airline excused itself by saying, “Most guests thoroughly understand that the welfare of the child is our priority.” As if it’s only a deviant who’d question this practice.
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i am glad that i do not fly alone anymore and not to fly virgin america
 
Don Quixote said:
i am glad that i do not fly alone anymore and not to fly virgin america
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Don, it was Virgin Australia not America!!

There were a few clues in the article!!


VIRGIN Australia is rethinking its unaccompanied minors policy after a passenger claimed the airline treated him like a pedophile.
Johnny McGirr, a 33-year-old NSW firefighter, said he felt ashamed when a flight attendant asked him to move seats because men are banned from sitting next to unaccompanied children.
Two boys, who he estimated were under the age of 10, had been seated in his row on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney, forcing him to switch seats with a woman, he said on Friday.
"I was so embarrassed," Mr McGirr told ABC radio in Brisbane.

"My issue is that as men we can be policemen, and firemen, and teachers, and doctors and people that are trustworthy, but it seems that nowadays we're just assumed to be pedophiles or people who commit these crimes."
The incident happened back in April, but it ignited debate on social media when Mr McGirr wrote about it this week on a blog.

Virgin confirmed its policy of banning men but not women from sitting next to unaccompanied minors but said on Friday that the policy was now under review.
"Our intention is certainly not to discriminate in any way," the airline said in a statement.
A company spokesman said it was too early to say what the review will consist of or how long it will take.
All airlines have policies for dealing with unaccompanied children, but it not known how many of them ban men from sitting next to them.
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