Hello friends, some points specially the one related to concession in fairs have been misunderstood. What happens is that the airlines have a fixed number of seats marked for concessional fairs and as soon as that quota is exhausted, the concessional tickets are denied or are assigned to the waitlist category. The demand we are planning to put forth is only that we should be given concession on the full ticket in case a seat is vacant at the last minute even if the quota of tickets for the disabled has been exhausted. Please note that we are not demanding concession on the already discounted fairs! Regards Aruni. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] DGCA Guidelines for Blind passengers travelling by Air
Hello all, 1. It is not reasonable to ask the airlines to provide an attendant to stay with the blind person for the duration that the person waits in the lounge. It must be borne in mind that most airlines have a staff crunch, and sparing attendants will not be easy. Besides, the blind person may not be the only disabled person travelling in that aircraft. 2. Asking for concession on the already discounted fare is highly unreasonable. 3. The whole point of airline staff providing us assistance is to eliminate the need for an escort. Let us ask for concessions only where they are absolutely necessary. We may otherwise not be taken seriously at all. Geetha To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
