Some airports around the world are trying to make things easier for their autistic passengers by opening up sensory rooms to relax in and holding mock flight experiences.
Read more about it at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/travel/at-airports-making-travel-easier-for-autistic-passengers.html
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) today was joined by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Ed Markey (D-MA) to introduce the Air Carrier Access Amendments Act. The legislation would protect the rights of disabled airplane passengers and close service gaps that passengers with disabilities frequently encounter in air travel. Last year over 30,000 airplane passengers, including many disabled veterans, filed disability related complaints with airlines.
The Air Carrier Access Amendments Act will:
A one-page summary of the Air Carrier Access Amendments Act is available here.
A wheelchair-using woman was dropped by an unidentified Air Serv employee while transferring onto a plane at Houston airport. She suffered injuries to her shoulder that still persist, which have limited her use of her arms and her independence. And to add insult to injury, United Airlines also damaged her wheelchair. But at least she didn’t get dragged off the airplane, so I guess that’s progress!
Read the rest at: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-confined-wheelchair-dropped-united-flight-lawsuit-article-1.3228429
Frontier Airlines prevented a blind man and his granddaughter from boarding their flight to Las Vegas because they didn’t think he was capable of taking care of her during the flight. They have since apologized and rescheduled him for another flight.
I have to wonder how they think he managed to acquire a granddaughter, if he had been incapable of taking care of her parent in the first place?
Click through to read the whole story and see a picture of the very cute granddaughter in question: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/airlines/frontier-airlines-refused-to-allow-blind-man-and-granddaughter-on-plane-at/2325975
In August of 2016, American Airlines had the cops arrest a double amputee and remove him from his flight, saying that he was drunk and belligerent. What did he do to cause such trouble? He hobbled down the aisle asking two flight attendants for water to take his pain medication with, since they had failed to have a wheelchair available for his use.
Read the whole story at http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/american-airlines-called-cops-on-double-amputee-after-forgetting-his-a-wheelchair-lawsuit-says-9383726
