i have been following this topic with interest and frankly, i admire all of you guys who travel around so confidently without any escorts. but personally, being late blind myself, i am mortally scared of travellling alone. its not the fear of travelling but the fear of falling of steps, escalators, railway platforms and the like and strongly feel that for air travel also escorts should be allowed on discounted tickets like in the railways. i am sure there are quite a few of us who have to travel and are late blind and a little late in life to overcome the fear. it would be a good idea to encourage views from across the list so as to enable us to have a clearer picture. prasana pinchas case and also rajiv rajans case (locomotor disabled with cerebral palsy who was forcibly medicated at chennai for being mistaken for a mentally ill person) filed by hrln has resulted in these guidelines being framed by dgca and ccpd has sought our interventions on these guidelines so i will really appreciate a more vigorous expression of views on this topic. and if quite a few of us feel that escorts should also be allowed on discounted tickets i feel there is no harm in expressing the same. if airlines are offering so many tickets on discounted fares one more for an escort will hardly matter but this is my personal opinion. regards rajive ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaja, Kiran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [AI] DGCA Guidelines for Blind passengers travelling by Air
> I get a feeling that you want to argue for argument sake and do not > want to look at the practical issues and repurcations of your arguments. > If you cannot travel alone in a flight inspite of the fact that the > airport authorities and airline staff take good care of you, I am sorry > to say but you better not travel anywhere. Railways do not provide any > sort of help and so they allow for an escort. This is totally > impractical and unfair when it comes to airlines. If you do not want to > travel alone, you are always free to take the train. > > Secondly, I really don't understand why do people make so much fuss > about seating. There is no way and it is totally unsafe for any sort of > disabled person to be seated near the emergency exits. And if the staff > decides that they can help you better by seating you at a particular > place, what is the big deal? They can ask anyone to change seats and not > just blind persons. > > Regards, > Kiran. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 2:02 PM > To: ACCESSINDIA@accessindia.org.in > Subject: [AI] DGCA Guidelines for Blind passengers travelling by Air > > Of dear, Let us leave somethings for the nodal agencies to take care. > We > require an escort to assist us during the travel. & we want a > concessional > ticket for an escort. We do not need an escort if Govt. could do that > for > us. Let the checking authority take care of verify the veracity of a > true > escort or a 'business associate'??? We are aware of this fraud is > enough to > know our responsibilities. But facilities could never be denied upon > apprehensions. > > Seating a blind person at the rear or front-should it be an issue? Why > should a blind person be discriminated to get allotted a particular > seat?? > Let the crew know where the person is requiring special attention. > > 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.i > n > > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/410 - Release Date: 8/5/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/410 - Release Date: 8/5/2006 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
