Air France Crews Can Refuse Iran Flights

Apr 05, 2016, 12:15 PM

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Air France will let female crew members opt out of flights to Tehran, after staff and unions challenged the airline's request that female crew wear headscarves upon arrival in Iran.

"If, for personal reasons, they don't want to wear the headscarf when they leave the plane," said Gilles Gateau, Air France's human resources director, according to the BBC, "they would be reassigned to another destination.