Indian Politician Demands Women-Only Lavatories On Flights: Not Happening, But...

Indian Politician Demands Women-Only Lavatories On Flights: Not Happening, But...

A politician in India is calling on aviation regulators in the country to require airlines to offer gender segregated bathrooms onboard flights. Maybe it’s a hot take, but I don’t actually disagree with where she’s coming from. However, there’s no way this will actually become a reality. Should airplanes have separate toilets for men & women? Varsha Eknath Gaikwad, a Member of Parliament for Mumbai North Central, has asked India’s Ministry of Ci…

Indian Lawmaker Demands Women-Only Airplane Bathrooms — But Airlines Just Need To Keep Them Clean

An Indian lawmaker is being mocked for supposedly demanding that Boeing and Airbus redesign aircraft with separate bathrooms for men and women. Her actual letter asks airlines to designate one existing lavatory women-only and clean all of them more often—a real sanitation problem wrapped in a policy likely to create new capacity, enforcement and gender-definition problems.