Saudia says women cannot work on planes

State-owned Saudia airlines has permitted local women to work at its ground services in the Gulf Kingdom but it will not allow them as cabin crew aboard its aircraft, a Saudia official was quoted on Monday as saying.

“There are no jobs for Saudi women as stewardesses on our planes…but we have allowed them to have jobs at our ground service facilities,” said Abdul Rahman Al Fahd, assistant director general for public relations.

Okaz newspaper, which carried the report, said Al Fahd refused to explain why Saudi women are banned from working as hostesses abroad Saudia aircraft.

Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative Muslim nations, bans gender-mixing in public places despite recurrent calls for easing the rule.
 

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