According to Italian media reports, the struggle in Italy comprehensive compilation: Recently, Lufthansa announced that Lufthansa, as well as its swiss airlines, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Brussels Airlines, all canceled the greeting "ladies and gentlemen".
(Infographic: Lufthansa aircraft)
Lufthansa announced in a statement that it would cancel the phrase because the greetings of "ladies and gentlemen" were not gender-neutral and not inclusive enough. A spokesperson for the company explained: "In greetings, take into account that everyone is important to us. This greeting will not be limited to passengers, but will be in all the language of the Lufthansa Group. But it is undeniable that such a conversion requires a time process. ”
(Infographic: Lufthansa aircraft)
According to the report, Lufthansa will greet passengers with "good morning and good evening" in the future. And the company will make this change when it needs to use national versions of the language.
However, the Italian media pointed out that from the perspective of gender neutrality, if broadcasting in Italian, if the use of positive plurals (when there are men and women in Italian, the use of positive plurals to represent all people) may also be more "not gender neutral enough". Other European languages also have different difficulties in using them.
However, Lufthansa's move is not for everyone to understand, and German Bundesweet Christoph Ploß said on social media that Lufthansa's approach is puzzling and only to pursue leftist ideologies and gain some long-term benefits for the company. (Struggle in Italy)