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Lufthansa airline adopts gender-neutral ‘guests’ greeting
New York Post (via CNN) ^ | July 16, 2021 | Hannah Frishberg

Posted on 07/16/2021 4:03:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Planes are flying into more inclusive skies.

German airline group Lufthansa has dropped welcoming language that includes gendered phrases, including the traditional “ladies and gentlemen.”

The company — which includes Lufthansa, Eurowings and Brussels Airlines — has begun instead referring to customers as “guests” or getting rid of the direct subject altogether and simply offering, “Good morning here on board,” CNN reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: aviation; gender; lufthansa
No more "unmanned" but yet when there is a crime reported in some news outlets we see "police are looking for a man..." Race is often removed but gender is included. What next? "Police are looking for a suspect described as..."
1 posted on 07/16/2021 4:03:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
Welcome, subjects.

Welcome, brain-fornicated.

Welcome, serfs.

Welcome, drones.

2 posted on 07/16/2021 4:10:10 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hi Y’all!

We been doing that in Texas since the Rio Grande was a creek.


3 posted on 07/16/2021 4:15:11 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bullenscheisse.... es wird immer willkommen an Bord sein, meine Damen und Herren.


4 posted on 07/16/2021 4:16:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Dusty Road

Ha Ha
We do that in Tennessee too!


5 posted on 07/16/2021 4:34:49 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Welcome payload.


6 posted on 07/16/2021 4:57:42 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They’ve always referred to passengers this way, as guests, but the problem is that in German you must, gramatically, include the plural masculine and feminine both when greeting passengers as a group.

They’ll say “Liebe Gästinnen, Liebe Gäste,...” (Dear (female) Guests and Dear (male) Guests,...etc.” So I don’t know how the shift to “guests” really helps them in their own tongue.


7 posted on 07/16/2021 4:59:45 AM PDT by babble-on
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At the Boarding Gate ...

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome ...

8 posted on 07/16/2021 5:05:10 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why not just use “Comrade”?


9 posted on 07/16/2021 5:07:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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What would Hooters do?


10 posted on 07/16/2021 5:12:40 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Welcome, Comrades.


11 posted on 07/16/2021 5:14:07 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

“How is it going today? Welcome aboard.”


12 posted on 07/16/2021 6:50:45 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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What about passengers who identify as kitties or broccoli or star dust? Can’t seat belt star dust and kitties need litter boxes.


13 posted on 07/16/2021 7:17:43 AM PDT by bgill
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To: ConservativeStatement

Insulting people everywhere


14 posted on 07/16/2021 7:22:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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(facepalm)

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15 posted on 07/16/2021 7:54:22 AM PDT by Menes
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