[nagdu] dogs with transportation

Marion Gwizdala blind411 at verizon.net
Sat Jul 30 21:52:09 UTC 2011


Cindy,
    I had a flight attendant tell me the same thing. I handed her my 
business card and said, I think I know a little more about the Air Carrier 
Access Act than you think I do!" and took my seat!

Fraternally yours,
Marion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] dogs with transportation


> Did she actually read such a law cause there is no such law. I had someone 
> tell me that on the plane before and I said there wasn't. This employee 
> had walked on with me and said he didn't get it because he had accompanied 
> blind people and dogs onto the plane all the time and hadn't found them to 
> have that kind of requirement.
>
> On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:23 PM, The Pawpower Pack wrote:
>
>> Last time I flew, a flight attended insisted that I sit in bulkhead. 
>> Even though I'd picked my seat already when I bought the flight, and my 
>> seat wasn't bulkhead.  The attendant told me that the law states that 
>> bulk is where they put quote, "people like you."  I asked what she meant 
>> by "people like me."  Deaf people?  Blind people? Deafblind people? 
>> Red-headed fat people, or what?  Then I said that I wanted her to go look 
>> up the relevant sections of the law and when she found them and read them 
>> to me, I would comply with whatever the law stated.  I had tried being 
>> nice, I had tried explaining the law.  However she wasn't listening.  So 
>> I stood there while she went to look up the relevant section of the law, 
>> and then I took the seat I had chosen to begin with, after she read the 
>> law.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
>> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD and Laveau guide dog, CGC.
>> Do not meddle in the affaires of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste 
>> good with ketchup.
>> http://pawpower4me.blogspot.com
>> pawpower4me at gmail.com
>> AIM: lillebriss
>>
>>
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