[NAGDU] Fwd: [seeing-eye] The Dogington Post

[Danielle Ledet]

If you've already seen this, delete and keep moving! This was featured
in another newspaper. Might be someone might have a line to put in if
they haven't already done so!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeanie Vejil <jvejil924 at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:42:49 -0500
Subject: Re: [seeing-eye] The Dogington Post
To: Sue Martin <sue.martin at windstream.net>, seeing-eye at googlegroups.com

Good morning Sue.

I wish you and Quan a much bettter trip in May, for goodness
sake.  Not only did they cost you and Jim extra money, but they also
caused you unnecessary stress and it was all totally out of line.

Please keep updating us as we all think the world of your family.

Hugs from,
Jeanie and Garlyn

On Sunday 3/19/2017 06:13 AM, Sue Martin wrote:
>These folks incorrectly indicated Jim and I had to pay for our
>tickets on the United flight. I suggested the correction and they
>made it. Yea for accuracy in the media.
>
>From:
><http://www.dogingtonpost.com/blind-woman-service-dog-kicked-off-american-airlines-flight>http://www.dogingtonpost.com/blind-woman-service-dog-kicked-off-american-airlines-flight
>
>
>Blind Woman, Service Dog Kicked Off American Airlines Flight
>By Brandy Arnold
>Posted on Mar 14, 2017
>
>
>Sue Martin of Franklin, Maine is blind and depends on her service
>dog, Quan to navigate through life. While traveling to San Diego on
>American Airlines, Martin and her service dog were called "a danger
>to the safety of the flight" by the pilot of the aircraft and were
>booted from the plane.
>The long trip from Maine to San Diego involved several layovers and
>plane changes. Martin says all of the flights went smoothly until
>the connection from Washington D.C. to Dallas.
>When Martin, her husband, and Quan boarded the plane in D.C., they
>quickly realized that the seat they'd been assigned would not
>accommodate three adults and a 75-pound dog. So, naturally, Martin
>requested a seat change.
>After making several seat change requests that were ignored, Martin,
>her husband, and Quan were asked to deboard the plane.
>"The man said, 'You have to leave the plane.' I asked him why and he
>said the crew had decided I was a danger to the flight," Martin told
>WCSH. "I've never had anything happen like this before." Martin said
>there was no altercation between her and the flight attendants and
>that she couldn't understand why it escalated the way it did.
>"I stood up, reached for Quan's harness and almost began to cry.
>This is just so far out of the realm of anything I have ever
>experienced in all my years of travel," Martin said. "I felt
>helpless, I felt afraid, I was terrified."
>Stuck in Washington D.C., American Airlines paid for Martin, her
>husband, and Quan to travel, instead, on a United Airlines flight,
>but the travelers were forced to pay $80 out-of-pocket to travel
>from Reagan National to Washington Dulles in order to catch their
>United flight.
>Martin filed complaints with the airline who says they are
>investigating the matter and "take all disability complaints very seriously."
>"Some reassurance that American will better train its personnel is
>the only way I will feel comfortable getting on another American
>Airlines flight," Martin said. "I mean, if they can kick a blind
>person off a plane whose dog is perfectly behaved, what can they do
>next? I don't know."
>Martin will be traveling for work the first week in May and must use
>the American Airlines contract carrier out of Bangor
>
>
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