John Lindsay on Nostr: From the Economist, on Turkish Airlines: “A recent rule allows the airline’s ...

From the Economist, on Turkish Airlines: “A recent rule allows the airline’s pilots and cabin crew to break for prayers in flight, albeit not during “critical” phases of the flight, and fast for Ramadan. This is in line with Mr Erdogan’s policy of weakening modern Turkey’s secularist traditions. But even airlines run by governments that are more strictly Islamic do not allow this. In August a pilot was dismissed for calling the rule a safety risk.”