Air France has revisited its controversial dress code on Paris-Tehran flights, which originally mandated that female pilots and flight attendants wear a head scarf after leaving the plane in Tehran.
As MSN reports, female Air France employees who disagree with the policy can instead opt out of the Paris-Tehran flight entirely.
Air France has recently resumed flights to Iran, after having closed off that market in 2008 due to international sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program. However, following last year’s blockbuster nuclear deal, those sanctions have been lifted, and flights have resumed from Paris to Tehran.
However, the resumption of flights to Tehran means that Air France will have to make some compromises regarding travel to the conservative Islamist nation. The airline announced that female employees would have to wear loose-fitting clothes such as pants (not jeans), or long skirts. Men are required to wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts.
But most troubling for certain women in the Air France family is that women must wear head scarves as soon as they leave the plane in Tehran

Source: Reuters, April 5, 2016