Mark your calendars for Thursday, Feb. 15 at 1pm EST, when MDA and representatives from the U.S. Department of Transportation will be hosting a webinar to discuss traveling with a disability and passenger’s rights as laid out in the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA). Stay tuned for more details on @MDA_Advocacy and on MDA’s Facebook page.
Click here to register for the webinar.
I managed to miss it, but the Great Lakes ADA Center recently held a “Frontier Accessibility Issues” webinar featuring Michelle Erwin of All Wheels Up. Tune in to see images of a wheelchair user in his chair strapped down in a military cargo plane, the “Scarecrow” airplane built for FDR, and video of wheelchair tiedowns successfully passing a 20G crash test. Captions available.
In August, many of you tuned in for part one of MDA’s accessible air travel webinar series, where they held a conversation with Southwest and Alaska Airlines and discussed the current state of accessible air travel and what the future holds for those passengers traveling with a disability. MDA will continue their accessible air travel webinar series in early 2018 with the Department of Transportation. Keep an eye out for future messages that will include pertinent information regarding the upcoming webinar.
MDA has made their recent Accessible Air Travel Webinar available on YouTube, with automatic captions. Look out below:
