Saudi Airlines is planning to recruit national women as sales ladies, in a departure of long-standing policy of restricting such jobs to men, an official from the carrier said in remarks published on Saturday.
The decision followed furore in the conservative Gulf Kingdom last week when the top Islamic authority refused to endorse a draft low to allow Saudi women to work as cashiers as part of plans to tackle festering female unemployment.
“We will employ women as ticket sales ladies in all parts of the Kingdom from next year,” Saudi Airlines Passenger Services director, Saad Al Seuleiman, said in a statement published in local newspapers.
“They will be deployed in places assigned specially for them away from the main terminals…they will work in places confined only to women…the policy of Saudi Airlines is clear in not allowing women to mix with men.”