I must say I'm really surprised that an airline would deny access to a
disabled passenger.  I've never flown with an attendant and have never felt
the need to do so.  If someone were ever to say I needed one, I'd point them
to the ADA.  Doesn't Canada have similar laws on the books?

Kat

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Kendall D. Corbett <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Is the issue what he'd do in case of an emergency?? A blind person might
> actually have advantages in that case.  If it's because he can't get out in
> case of a crash, what about those of us with mobility impairments?  My
> chair
> will be in the belly of the plane, yet I fly by myself frequently.  I've
> never been seriously challenged, although I have been asked if someone is
> meeting me at the aiport.  Never by airline personnel, more often by other
> passengers.  I wonder if this started when a fellow passenger saw "the poor
> deaf and blind ma" all by himself. Often when I say I'm taking a cab,
> people
> look like they're surprised about it.  Mag, when you fly, do you always go
> with an attendant?  I figure if I'm confident enough with my skills as
> someone with a disability to travel alone, how am I, or anyone else, in a
> position to make that judgement for someone else?  Is there a Canadian
> ADAPT
> group?  It seems to me that what Air Canada is trying to do flies in the
> face of the Constitution Act of 1982
>
> http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/annex_e.html#mobility
>
>
> *Equality Rights*
>  *Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law* *
> 15.*   (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the
> right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without
> discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race,
> national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or
> *physical
> disability*.
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > REMIND ME!!!!!
> >
> > THIS IS 2009?
> >
> > ON THE EVE OF PASSOVER??????????????
> >
> >
> >
> > http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
> >
> >
> > 7 Apr 2009
> >  The Gazette
> > CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
> >
> >  Disabled man's right to travel  alone challenged
> > Air Canada to argue in Federal Court
> >
> >
> > OTTAWA - In a case that balances passenger safety and the rights of the
> > disabled, Air Canada is challenging a deaf and blind man's contention
> that
> > he should be allowed to fly without an attendant.
> >
> > The airline will argue in Federal Court that not allowing Eddy Morten to
> > fly
> > alone is justified discrimination.
> >
> > Morten of Burnaby, B.C., counters that he has a system for safe air
> travel
> > with his service dog, he has been self-sufficient all his life, and that
> he
> > has made many past trips on planes, trains and buses.
> >
> > "I have never needed a babysitter," Morten, a father of two and a
> > Paralympic
> > bronze medallist in judo, wrote in an email.
> > "Air Canada routinely allows people who are blind, people who cannot walk
> > and people who may be very disabled due to aging to travel unattended.
> Why
> > not me?"
> >
> > Air Canada is fighting Morten in court after losing a Canadian Human
> Rights
> > Tribunal decision in January.
> >
> > The tribunal did not order the airline to allow Morten to travel alone,
> but
> > said he had the right to be assessed for self-reliance rather than
> > automatically ordered to bring an attendant.
> >
> > The tribunal, ruling that Air Canada had not met its obligation to
> > accommodate Morten to the point of "undue hardship," ordered the airline
> to
> > pay Morten $10,000 in damages. Air Canada is not contesting the award.
> >
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>
>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
>
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