An international flight from New York to Tel Aviv was delayed for half an hour after ultra-Orthodox men refused to sit between two women
The flight crew of Delta Flight 468 departing John F. Kennedy Airport on December 20 attempted to find other seats for the haredi men. But other passengers refused to swap seats in protest at their refusal to sit next to female passengers, according to a Friday report by Israel Radio.
The men were finally accommodated by an American passenger who agreed to switch seats.
According to Federal Aviation Authority regulations, a flight is not permitted to take off until all passengers are seated.
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So, if one passenger turns ill just before the flight - stomach flu or a heart attack - the plane won't leave until s/he is better again?
I'd say "if they refuse to accept their allotted seats, leave them where they are and let the decent passengers get to their destination on time".
This is a great argument for flying with pre-cooked bacon.
"Sure, I'll move for you," he said with a mouthful of half chewed bacon while wiping his greasy fingers on the seat and offers to shake hands. "Anything for a reasonable fellow traveler."
Ok not really, but the thought tickles me.
So throw their miserable asses off the plane! Why is this so hard to figure out!? You refuse to take your seat for personal reasons? Then fuck you! Off you fucking go! Hope you've got a rowboat and a clear schedule, dumbass, because you won't be flying back.
Some guy gets drunk and lippy and they put the plane into the first safe harbor to put him off. This guy refuses to sit cuz he's going to get the girl cooties and they wait and they wait.
Next time a passenger refuses ti sit due to some arcane religious belief, put him off the plane!
An international flight from New York to Tel Aviv was delayed for half an hour after ultra-Orthodox men refused to sit between two women
If God really loved these ultra-Orthodox men, as he should, why didn't he just part the Atlantic Ocean so they could walk to Israel from NY without getting their feet wet?
Just toss 'em out. If you're going to be flying with an airline, you're going to be flying by their rules. If they decide not to take you because you are holding up the entire flight, it's well within their right to declare your ticket null and void.
This seems to be a recurring problem, so these bastards should be thrown off all flights unless they obey the rules.
Maybe they can create their own airline and team up with other men who freak out about women like the Wahhabis or something. "JetFrummer", we'll call it.
> If God really loved these ultra-Orthodox men, as he should, why didn't he just part the Atlantic Ocean so they could walk to Israel from NY without getting their feet wet?
Because that would be way too far to walk?
Seriously? Just make them decide between A) stop acting like barbarians and just sit next to the women and B) getting the hell off the flight. I'm not against accommodating someone's religious beliefs to a certain point but this goes way beyond that point. What's next? A Muslim demanding that the airplane be prevented from taking off until all alcohol is removed from the serving carts? A Christian stopping a flight until a woman in a mini-skirt puts on something longer?
@pyro
It'd be much less than the 40 years Moses walked around.
@Goomy: this is one of those recurring nuisances. wait another news cycle and it'll happen again.
sort of like how religion-poisoned parents keep letting their kids die of treatable illness every so often, though that one's fortunately on a somewhat longer cycle it seems. since the delusions don't change much over time, neither do the irrational harmful behavior patterns the delusions inspire.
Actually, the attempt to accommodate didn't work out after all. So a group began to protest the original protesters. This, in turn, led to some counter-counter protesting. The captain stormed into the first class section and cold cocked an elderly woman in an attempt to restore order. And the Jews got terribly perturbed because their original demand had been lost in the confusion. Long story short, the plane is still on the runway and a SWAT team says its members are too frightened to intervene.
"Reality is defined by the least sane person in the room." - Scott Adams
Or in this case, on the plane.
Nobody better tell that brain-dead asshole who last sat in the seat he finally occupied. I hope it was a Hooker coming home to NY from Vegas for the Holidays.
@1748180
Who the fuck invited you to comment this without even looking at the damn comment section?
We quote Muslims for misogyny (eg. ISIS's recent pamphlet on kidnapping women and making them sex slaves). We quote Jews for misogyny (eg. this). We quote Christians for misogyny (eg. anything spouted by Vox Day).
Hell, one of the most notorious misogynists quoted on this site (Morgan Schlicklitz) is atheist, and another (fschmidt) is Jewish. On the whole, it is a big problem among fundamentalists of any stripe.
Now, if you please, fuck off and learn not to trust strawmen.
Simple answer, unload any passenger, regardless of religion, who will not sit. Oh, and slap a fine on them for the delay.
Unfortunately it's not that simple to kick them off the plane as their luggage will already be in the hold and it's a security risk to let luggage fly without its owners.
If I ran an airline, which I don't, I would arrange to tell any Orthodox dressed men, upon check-in, that they may well be sitting beside women, and let them refuse then if they choose - and then let neither them nor their luggage on board
And/or load their luggage separately in the bulk head, so it's easily accessed if they cause a fuss on board. And then kick them and their luggage off.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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