Airline works to make solo women feel safer amid swirl of reported groping incidences

Lark Ellen Gould | TravelPulse (TNS)

These incidents are not unusual; in fact, they happen all too often. The headlines read like this: “Sleeping woman wakes up to passenger groping her on flight to XX.”

It happened to me early in the early aughts on a Royal Jordanian flight from New York to Amman. The seat row was in the back of the Economy Plus section. The seatmate was an air marshal. I knew this because I saw the pistol he packed in his carry-on bag. I did not report the incident...