[Nyagdu] US Airways passengers stand up for blind man removed fromflight

[Shelly Bamrick]

This is disgusting!!!   It's 2013, and we still have people and businesses 
acting this way.  Hell, they made the flight sit on the tarmac longer than 
it would have taken to get to new York.  I'm sorry this happened, and I 
won't be flying U.S. Air unless this gets resolved.

Because of back issues, I am not presently using a dog, but plan to have a 
special needs dog trained for me.  Cane and dog users should be concerned 
about Albert's treatment.  At least we're in an organization who will try to 
do something about it.  I hope he and his dog get the justice they deserve!!

Shelly Bamrick



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
To: "travelandtourism" <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>; "NAGDU Talk List" 
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Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:17 PM
Subject: [Nyagdu] US Airways passengers stand up for blind man removed 
fromflight


This is funny they say legally blind, um, Albert you are totally blind, so 
you cannot see anything.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/14/us-airways-passengers-revolt-after-staff-kicks-bli/

Passengers aboard a US Airways flight in Philadelphia on Wednesday banded 
together in support for a legally blind man who was kicked off the plane for 
his unruly guide dog.Flight attendants said Albert Rizzi’s guide dog was out 
of control, but other passengers wholeheartedly disagreed, refusing to fly 
with the airline if the blind man wasn’t allowed on the plane, ABC 7 
reported.
The flight was canceled and the passengers were bused to Long Island by the 
airline.Passengers told the station that the flight attendant wouldn’t clear 
the flight for takeoff without the dog going under the plane’s seat. The dog 
waited under the seat at first, but after the plane sat on the tarmac for 
about an hour and a half, the dog became restless.“The lady comes back and 
gets very insistent, and I said, ‘Look, I don’t understand what you want me 
to do.’ I said, ‘He’s as best as he can, he’s where he needs to be,’” Mr. 
Rizzi said.One passenger said others came to the man’s defense.
“She came back and said to him, ‘You’ve got about a minute to get this 
straightened out,’” the passenger told ABC 7. “And he tried to do whatever 
he could, and she went back to the front of the plane. We were taxiing like 
we were going to take off. And at that point in time, we’re about to take 
off, and all the sudden the captain gets on the PA and says we have to head 
back to the terminal. … We were all kind of raised our voices and said this 
is a real problem. So the captain winds up coming out of the cockpit, and he 
basically asked us all to leave the aircraft.”Officials at US Airways said 
Mr. Rizzi was belligerent and the crew’s safety was in jeopardy, but other 
passengers said that isn’t true.
Mr. Rizzi took to Facebook to express his disappointment.
“I cannot believe this. I was removed from the plane that I was supposed to 
be on to go home from Philadelphia because my dog couldn’t sit in a spot for 
an hour and a half on the tarmac such a joke,” he said, adding that the 
other passengers were very supportive.
“There were 35 people on the flight tonight. Every one of them stood up in 
solidarity for the discriminatory treatment I received and the way my dog 
was unwelcome on the flight,” he said.Miriam Woods Baxter commented: “My 
brother-in-law was on the plane with you. He is disgusted with the way you 
were treated. I’m sorry you were treated this way.”

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