[nagdu] airline issues
cheryl echevarria
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Thu Oct 28 17:15:00 UTC 2010
out in CA he is not from NY. I think. I can google it though.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Lyn Gwizdak<mailto:linda.gwizdak at cox.net>
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] airline issues
Hi Cheryl,
The Captian's nickname is Sully. No, I didn't know he was a puppy raiser.
Do you know which school? I'm not surprised Sully is a puppy raiser!
Take care,
Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message -----
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com<mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
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Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] airline issues
>I was fly southwest last year for Disney and the flight attendant was
>giving us a hard time, the Captain came out and said the the flight
>attendant, that if she does this one more time while she is on one of his
>flights he will ask for her to never fly on his flights. She knew the
>rules and thought she could get away with it.
>
> now this is what the captain said to me and the rest of the customers on
> the plane and please excuse the vulgarity. The Captain said word for word
> "She has bigger stuff (changing word here) then I do". Also said that
> Guide Dogs are service animals and this lady is blind and this will not be
> tolerated on my flights, um he is also a puppy raiser out in CA I found
> out.
>
> Oh how many of you knew that Captain Skully that was the hero here in NY 2
> years ago is also a puppy raiser.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marion Gwizdala<mailto:blind411 at verizon.net<mailto:blind411 at verizon.net>>
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] airline issues
>
>
> Jenine,
> In 1988 I was dating a woman who had a guide dog, too. We were on our
> way to a Florida affiliate convention and were sitting together with our
> dogs, The flight attendant told us we couldn't sit together "because they
> needed to balance the plane"! We refused to separate and the plane did
> not
> tip over! (smile)
>
> Fraternally yours,
> Marion
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jenine Stanley" <jeninems at wowway.com<mailto:jeninems at wowway.com<mailto:jeninems at wowway.com%3Cmailto:jeninems at wowway.com>>>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org%3Cmailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>>>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:10 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] airline issues
>
>
> >I think one of the most frustrating parts of the accessibility issues
> > surrounding airlines is the extremely varied and generally often poor
> > training and monitoring of staff.
> >
> > If I had a dime for every flight attendant who still tells me it's a
> > federal
> > law that I must sit in the bulkhead seat, I'd not have to work for a
> > living.
> > It never has been a federal law, ever.
> >
> > The strange ways the ACAA is interpreted during such trainings also
> baffle
> > me. Someone got the idea that having 2 people with assistance dogs
> sitting
> > in the same row was dangerous for the one next to the window and anyone
> in
> > the middle seat because they'd have to scramble over the dog under the
> > aisle
> > seat to get out. One would assume the person and dog in said aisle seat
> > would have moved, but the flight attendant all but called me a smart
> ass
> > for
> > asking her that question when she challenged my husband and I about
> > sitting
> > together. We didn't absolutely have to sit together, but why not?
> That's
> > where our tickets were. The middle seat was empty.
> >
> > The mildly amusing part of that story was that my husband was a pilot
> > before
> > his sight loss. He smiled and said that he'd probably know if there was
> > something really wrong with the plane before she did and he didn't care
> > who
> > was in his way, me, her or anyone else. He was getting out. She said
> maybe
> > he should sit on the aisle then. Meanwhile I was on the phone to the
> FAA
> > hotline, and actually got a live person.
> >
> > Never got an apology from the flight attendant though. She apologized
> to
> > my
> > husband but not me. <sigh>
> >
> > Somehow, I'm not sure how, we need to get ourselves, those of us with
> > proven
> > knowledge that is, into these trainings.
> > Jenine Stanley
> > jeninems at wowway.com<mailto:jeninems at wowway.com<mailto:jeninems at wowway.com%3Cmailto:jeninems at wowway.com>>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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