[Travelandtourism] Conference Call with Matt Slosky ofSocialflights.com last night

[cheryl echevarria]

Well Peter Donahue and Matt have been working on these issues, they are well aware of it.
Peter, have you mentioned to Matt of how the NFB can assist, Matt and Socialflights.com to update there website.
Thank you for the feedback Michael. Would have loved you on the call last night thought to have asked these questions.
Mind you they do not have all the codes, and they are not the 3 letter codes that we travel agents use, they are smaller airports, not major ones, I had to ask and e-mail them to add ISP, which is Islip, NY, but they had East Farmingdale, which is a airport for smaller planes and not the commercial airlines.

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> From: mbaldwin at gpcom.net
> To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:41:56 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Conference Call with Matt Slosky	ofSocialflights.com last night
> 
> Sounds like it was a great call.
> I actually contacted social flights the other day about pricing something
> for us for our upcoming vacation. I have not heard back yet. But if we can
> fly and not have to deal with the crap from the TSA and commercial flights,
> that would be great.
> I will try to keep everyone posted about it.
> 
> So far I am not impressed with their website. I feel it needs some work, but
> there is at least no captchas when trying to send a general contact to them,
> which is what I had to do. There system did not recognize the city or
> airport code I wanted to fly out of. Then I found a place that had a drop
> down list of all the cities, Jaws was unable to open the drop down list and
> scroll through the options. This needs to be worked out on their end I
> believe.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of cheryl echevarria
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:51
> To: travelandtourism; Matt Slosky; Echevarria Travelblog
> Subject: [Travelandtourism] Conference Call with Matt Slosky
> ofSocialflights.com last night
> 
> 
> Good morning all:
> What a great time we all had with Matt Slosky, COO, Chief Operating Officer
> with Socialflights.com, we were hoping for a better turn out, but I am
> guessing people were busy.  I am also going to forward this to NYAGDU, here
> in NY, since we had a few guide dog users from NY on the call last night.
> I just want to say thank you to Peter Donahue our Board Member, for
> introducing us to Socialflights.com.
> This service may not be good for everyone, or fit your pocketbook, but we
> are also going to hopefully be educating some of there operators as well.
> Matt, is all about learning about the National Federation of the Blind, he
> also mentioned that he has a therapy dog and knows the laws that his dog is
> not a service animal.
> He will always be a friend of the travel and tourism division, and hope to
> have him back in the future on our calls.  It has been recorded, Mary
> Donahue our Secretary will be taking notes off the recording last night and
> hopefully, Peter, will be able to download it to our website for others to
> listen to.
> It was a great success our first guest call, ever.  We are hoping in Dallas
> to get him or a few operators to come to our meeting at the convention but
> we will see.
> Now, to the members of this list and the division.
> We want to hear from you, it is nice to have a division, many of us belong
> to one or two of them maybe more. 
> So, we want to know, what you would like us to focus on, myself, and some of
> my officers who are travel partners, have connections in the industry to do
> this type of call in again. I am in talks with Andrew Garnett of Special
> Needs at Sea, his company does wheelchairs, scooters, oxygen, plus his
> company also did the braille for the Norwegian Gem, that I took a group on a
> tour of back in October.
> So his company does a lot of different things for the disabled community.
> Also, I have Cathy Vazquez with NCL, and I can have her come on as well, or
> possible one or two our my tour suppliers from different areas of travel.
> So, we need to hear from you, our members.
> 
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> 
> Cheryl Echevarria
> http://www.echevarriatravel.com
> 631-456-5394
> reservations at echevarriatravel.com
> 
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