British Airways, Qantas, and a few other airlines have a policy...
Their policy is to not allow men to sit next to children who are not their own.
If you are discovered sitting next to an unrelated child, you are asked to move your seat. If you refuse, you are "interfering with the operations of a flight crew" and forcibly removed from the flight.
On a recent British Airways flight to India, a man was asked to move. He explained that he was the children's father and was allowed to stay put. Coincidentally, he is a member of the British Parliament. He wrote the attached:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/09/do0901.xml
Does anyone else think this policy is absurdly stupid?
Please don't think I support child molesters. In fact, I think there should be mandatory castration as a condition of release for anyone convicted of any type of sexual assault. But this is ridiculous.
