Sentences with phrase «disability in air travel»

This is a document about nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Accessibility of Web Sites and Automated Kiosks at U.S. Airports

The Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in air travel and requires air carriers to accommodate the needs of passengers with disabilities.

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel DOT regulations implementing the Air Carrier Access Act, which prohibits discrimination in airline service based on disability.

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We also partner with local organizations to provide passengers with disabilities the opportunity to learn about airports and air travel in a practice setting.

Through training of all air travel personnel who come in day - to - day contact with persons with disabilities, to understand their needs and how they can be accommodated quickly, safely, and with dignity.

The Department of Transportation's ACAA regulation represents a major stride forward in improving the air travel experience for persons with disabilities.

This consent order concerns violations by Frontier Airlines, Inc., (Frontier) of the requirements of 14 CFR Part 250, the Department's oversales rule, and violations of 14 CFR Part 382 with respect to providing passengers with disabilities assistance in enplaning and deplaning, preboarding, moving within the terminal, and providing dispositive written responses to written disability - related air travel complaints.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Spirit Airlines $ 100,000 for failing to appropriately record and respond to complaints about the carrier's treatment of passengers with disabilities, violating DOT's rules implementing the Air Carrier Access Act which prohibits discrimination in air travel on the basis of disabiliAir Carrier Access Act which prohibits discrimination in air travel on the basis of disabiliair travel on the basis of disability.

In order for a customer to travel with an emotional support animal, the customer must provide to a Southwest Airlines employee current documentation (not more than one year old) on letterhead from a mental health professional or medical doctor who is treating the customer's mental health - related disability stating: The passenger has a mental or emotional disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — Fourth Edition (DSM IV); the passenger needs the emotional support of psychiatric service animal as an accommodation for air travel and / or for activity at the passenger's destination; the individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional or medical doctor, and the passenger is under his or her professional care AND; the date and type of mental health professional's or medical doctor's license and the state or other jurisdiction in which it was issueIn order for a customer to travel with an emotional support animal, the customer must provide to a Southwest Airlines employee current documentation (not more than one year old) on letterhead from a mental health professional or medical doctor who is treating the customer's mental health - related disability stating: The passenger has a mental or emotional disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — Fourth Edition (DSM IV); the passenger needs the emotional support of psychiatric service animal as an accommodation for air travel and / or for activity at the passenger's destination; the individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional or medical doctor, and the passenger is under his or her professional care AND; the date and type of mental health professional's or medical doctor's license and the state or other jurisdiction in which it was issuein the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — Fourth Edition (DSM IV); the passenger needs the emotional support of psychiatric service animal as an accommodation for air travel and / or for activity at the passenger's destination; the individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional or medical doctor, and the passenger is under his or her professional care AND; the date and type of mental health professional's or medical doctor's license and the state or other jurisdiction in which it was issuein which it was issued.

On letterhead of a licensed mental health professional including a medical doctor specifically treating the passenger's mental or emotional disability (e.g. psychiatrist, psychologist, or licensed clinical social worker) stating the following: You have a mental health related disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM IV); you need the emotional support or psychiatric service animal as an accommodation for air travel and / or for activity at your destination; the individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional and the passenger is under his or her professional care; and the date and type of the mental health professional's license and the state or other jurisdiction in which it was issued.

You must provide a doctor's letter that: states that you have a mental or emotional disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; shows the need for emotional support or psychiatric service animal for air travel and / or activity at your destination; provides proof of their licensing as a mental health professional or medical doctor (including date, type and state of license) and that you're a patient.

The carriers also argued that undue hardship would be caused by losses in competitive advantage caused by a 1P1F policy, in that carriers required to adopt a 1P1F policy would receive most of the demand by persons with severe disabilities for additional seating to travel by air.

Agency expert Richard Fisher presented an American study that stated «persons with disabilities in the United States who travel by air take, on average, two trips (assumed to be round - trips) every two years, or one round - trip (two one - way trips) per year.»

Number of persons and travel propensity — There is no arguable case that the Agency erred in finding that 3.6 % of all persons with disabilities who travel by air require an attendant and that such persons have a 10 % propensity to travel (Air Canada's issueair require an attendant and that such persons have a 10 % propensity to travel (Air Canada's issueAir Canada's issue 2)

Contrary to Air Canada's statement in its memorandum, the report of Dr. Lazar is not restricted to «persons with disabilities who travel by air.&raqAir Canada's statement in its memorandum, the report of Dr. Lazar is not restricted to «persons with disabilities who travel by air.&raqair.»