ISRAEL'S EL AL airline is being sued because a flight attendant, nee' stewardess, asked an 81 year old woman to change seats,
She was offered another seat in the same business section of the plane when an extremist, and ignorant, black hat objected sitting next to a woman.
The woman suggested that El Al, and perhaps all other airlines flying to Israel, have a haredi (extremist black hat) section.
During the seat selection process, passengers would be asked:
I'm a man [ ] woman [ ] who
(a) only will sit next to another man [ ] woman [ ]
(b) will NOT sit within 2 rows of children
(c) must sit close to the lavatories/betai shemush
(d) doesn't care where I sit as long as I sit by the window [ ] on the aisle [ ].
(e) does [ ] does not [ ] want to sit next to my family
Not all black hats are ignorant extremists; some are downright delightful and reasonable people. No, they won't shake hands with a person of the other sex nor will they willingly listen to a woman's voice in song - they are nice people who simply never learned to control their sexual proclivities (or perhaps even to acknowledge them).
The suit against El Al is not the first complaint against the company regarding seating, nor is El Al the only company to suffer the extremists' folly. It seems that Delta also is being victimized by the black hats.
Perhaps the airlines should offer "haredi only" flights and treat them as charter flights meaning that the plane stays on the ground until all seats are sold. The flight could offer three seating options:
(1) All men and boys
(2) All women, girls, and pre-bar mitzvah age boys
(3) Family
Sub-divisions might be needed in the mens' section accommodating different minyan start times: HaNetz, Chabad, etc.
The charter airline would need "regional" feeder flights from major black hat concentrations - Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami - to New York where they would board a jumbo for the flight to Israel where they could board segregated buses to Mea Sharim or Bnai Brak.
Recently there have been several stories that "made the Web" concerning black hats on flights to places other than Israel (London, as case in point). Perhaps the flights to Israel could be routed via one or another European center, e.g. London, Madrid, Rome, Warsaw.
Israeli passport control, instead of being divided into citizens and non-citizens would be divided for these charter flights into either Men and Women with children or by black hat sect, there seem to be one for each European shetel.
At least the charter company would not have to worry about meals; each black hat community seems to have its own level of kashrut that, of course, is "higher" than any other black hat group's kashrut. (Even El Al's kashrut is too casual for many.)
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