Jew men won't sit next to females on planes.
Those are the holy Jews, Mr. H. The bible references in the end times that the LORD has chosen 144,000 of those Jews to preach to Israel. These men never defiled themselves with a woman and obeyed God to the finest detail I would count it an honor to give my seat up to one such as that.
The written words of man do not speak for the Creation of the physical world.
The 'modesty' command forbids looking on improperly dressed women (by different features according to Halacha of the personal, Ask me to explain if necessary), or staring women, needless to say touch, these are the Ultra Orthodox/Chassidic Jews.
The whole incident was mutual stupidity of both the passengers and the airplane crew.
A Real man of faith SHOULD ask properly and politely for exchanging a seat, I bet many would agree to sit next to attractive women on a flight now wouldn't they?
A Real man of faith SHOULD abandon the flight to avoid using Judaism to start a quarrel.
The Flight Crew insisted to go against personal faith and religion placing the passenger under a very uncomfortable situation.
Putting some sense to these people, when you taking a flight with your friends they should have been able to predict that and order seats next to each other, or searching up for another flight, OR at least show some mature functional thoughts and find someone who would agree to replace seats.