Until today people around the world have largely agreed on how we should behave in an airport and onboard an aircraft. The passenger growth has been so moderate that all the new passengers adopted the existing behavioural patterns without any major questions. With the rapid growth in the number of passengers ahead, we will experience a lot of cultural clashes both in the airport and onboard the aircraft because some of the new passenger groups have cultural norms and values far from the existing group of passengers.
Some examples of upcoming cultural conflicts
• What if one ethnic group insists that they have priority over another ethnic group?
• What if a gender insists that it has superiority over the other gender?
• What if a person with one religious belief refuses to sit next to a person with another religious belief?
• What if an obese person claims the right to occupy 2 seats?
• What if some passengers complain about another passenger or group of passengers’ odor?
• What if a group of passengers gets irritated because of a number of elderly people who needs more time when boarding or de-boarding the aircraft?
The list is endless which is why we have to develop a culture where the norms prevent conflicts to develop. We also need to train staff both on the ground and in the air to tackle cultural disagreements before they develop into a conflict.
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This story is from the August 2021 edition of Aviation Update.
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