{"id":376219,"date":"2020-10-01T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376219"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:22:46","slug":"no-more-ladies-and-gentlemen-on-japan-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-more-ladies-and-gentlemen-on-japan-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"No more \u2018Ladies and Gentlemen\u2019 on Japan Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Airlines said it would retire the phrase \u201cladies and gentlemen\u201d from in-flight announcements made in English, a symbolic step toward inclusivity in a country where activists have long fought to change entrenched gender traditions. <\/p>\n<p>Announcements in Japanese would remain unchanged because gender-specific greetings are not used in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement Monday appeared to be the first for a Japanese carrier, as airlines and subway systems around the world have been phasing out gender-specific language in recent years. (In 2017, British officials said that they would roll out \u201cHello, everyone\u201d on the London Underground.)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Morimoto, a Japan Airlines spokesman, said Tuesday that greetings and announcements in English at the airport and in the cabin would use gender-neutral language such as \u201call passengers\u201d or \u201ceveryone\u201d \u2014 or avoid gender-specific phrases altogether \u2014 starting Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Airlines said it would retire the phrase \u201cladies and gentlemen\u201d from in-flight announcements made in English, a symbolic step toward inclusivity in a country where activists have long fought to change entrenched gender traditions. Announcements in Japanese would remain unchanged because gender-specific greetings are not used in the first place. The announcement Monday appeared to be the first for a Japanese carrier, as airlines and subway systems around the world have been phasing out gender-specific language in recent years. (In 2017, British officials said that they would roll out \u201cHello, everyone\u201d on the London Underground.) Mark Morimoto, a Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}