We will not tolerate a situation in which passengers refusing to sit next to a woman as the holy torah requires will be removed from the airplane. We will not boycott El Al but the public will stop traveling with El Al all on its own..

  -- MK Yisrael Eichler (UTJ)

hmmm, as the torah requires?

anyways, while the affected passengers might prefer other airlines, as they probably should already anyway (considering price differences, delays, quality of planes, customer service, etc), I wonder which other airline they will choose will allow them to refuse to sit next to a woman after being assigned a seat and not remove them from the plane?