TWO recent events have focused attention on airlines’ relation with religion. First, female cabin crew at Air France complained about an edict telling them to wear a headscarf when disembarking aircraft in Iran. They will be also expected to wear trousers.
The airline is to resume flights to Tehran after an eight year hiatus, following the lifting of economic sanctions. The Telegraph reports Flore Arrighi, head of the UNAC flight crews’ union, as saying: “It is not our role to pass judgement on the wearing of headscarves or veils in Iran. What we are denouncing is that it is being made compulsory. Stewardesses must be given the right to refuse these flights.” The Guardian, meanwhile, quotes Françoise Redolfi, another union leader: “They are forcing us to wear an ostentatious religious symbol. We have to let the girls choose what they want to wear. Those that don’t...Continue reading
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