[nabs-l] Fwd: [Members] Airline apologizes for forgetting blindteen

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Briley and everyone,

    Unless you charter your own plane. Problems solved! We'll be doing that 
this year as a result of having $1000.00 of professional recording equipment 
damaged by lovable Southwest Airlines. Add moving in to a new place in to 
the mix and you have a prime example of how a blind person can over-come 
issues of that nature despite the cost of doing so. See you in Dallas.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Briley Pollard" <brileyp at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Fwd: [Members] Airline apologizes for forgetting 
blindteen


My fear is also that because of this, the next time I fly, I'm going to be 
harassed more than I already am. I'm a 23 year old woman, and I appreciate 
one or two offers of help to find my gate or my seat, but grabbing my arm 
and insisting that your job is to help me because I'm blind and must not 
know where I'm going, (yes this has happened quite a few times), is 
ridiculous. This kind of story is going to perpetuate the image that blind 
people are helpless and can't even get off of a plane by themselves. It is 
frustrating to me. I don't know this girl personally, so nothing of what I 
say is meant to be taken that way. But I'd be really embarrassed if this 
story was published about me.

Briley
On May 15, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Harry Hogue wrote:

> This is ridiculous.  At least be proactive in mentioning your needs, even 
> if
> you are not comfortable with traveling off the plane yourself.  And of
> course, if you make headlines, naturally the airline will apologize; they 
> do
> not want the adverse publicity resulting from not apologizing, etc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Sarah Alawami
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:19 PM
> To: nabs list list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Fwd: [Members] Airline apologizes for forgetting blind
> teen
>
> I think she should have gotten off the plain by her self. How hard can 
> that
> be? just  get off and turn right and go up the ramp thing and turn left 
> and
> get out and then wait for your escort. but here's the story.
>
> Airline apologizes for forgetting blind teen
>
> Edmonton Journal , May 15, 2010
>
> United Airlines has apologized to a blind woman from Vancouver Island who
> was abandoned on an empty plane in Chicago.
>
> Jessica Cabot of Courtenay, B.C., made headlines this week after she went
> public about being forgotten in an empty United Airlines plane on an April 
> 7
> stopover in Chicago.
>
> The 18-year-old was waiting for flight attendants to escort her to a
> connecting flight to Florida when she heard the plane door seal shut. Ten
> minutes later two maintenance staff happened to find her on an unscheduled
> check of the plane.
>
> She panicked in the plane, calling for help.
>
> After a series of complaints, Cabot received a $250 airline voucher and 
> the
> promise of an apology. Five weeks after her flight and a series of news
> stories later, she finally got one.
>
> "They just called," said Cabot, on the phone from Jacksonville, Fla., 
> where
> she is visiting her fiance. "I can't even count how many times they said
> sorry."
>
>
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