[nagdu] dogs with transportation

[Marion Gwizdala]

Julie,
    The Air carrier Access Act only contains language restricting the blind 
from sitting in exit row seating. It has no privision concerning the 
requirement of guide dog users to sit in bulkhead.

Marion Gwizdala



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Phillipson" <jbrew48 at verizon.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] dogs with transportation


> the air carrier access law
>
> Julie Phillipson
> ----- 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
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>
>> 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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