Dear Asif You have followed up the case wonderfully.
Would you please persuade DIGC to essentially host this circular at their website. This is very important for its proper implementation. Harish Kotian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohammed Asif Iqbal" <asifmaiq...@hotmail.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:01 PM Subject: [AI] Letter to CEO of all airlines by DGCA > Hi all, > > As promised I am copying the content of the circular issued by DGCA to all > airlines. I am going to forward original PDF document to George and request > him to publishe it on eyeway web site. > > In case you need this circular ; please feel free to reach out to me and I > would be happy to Email it to you. > > Thanks and regards > > Asif > > letter1 on carriage of persons.pdf > > 2 > > No.: 21-1/2010-AED > > Date: 13th Jun 2011 > > To > > The CEOs of all Scheduled Domestic Airlines > > Subject: Carriage of incapacitated passengers. > > Sir, > > DGCA has issued Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) Section 3, Series M, Part I > on > > Carriage by Air of Persons with Disability and/or Persons with Reduced > Mobility. In > > accordance with the provisions of the above mentioned CAR, no airline shall > refuse to > > carry persons with disability or persons with reduced mobility. Airlines are > also required to > > formulate a detailed procedure for carriage of disabled persons or persons > with reduced > > mobility and publish the same on their website. > > It has been observed that information available on the website of scheduled > > domestic airlines in this regard is very sketchy and incomplete. Further, > reports have been > > received in this office that one of the scheduled domestic airlines has > denied boarding to > > the blind passenger. It may be stated that blind passengers fall in the > category of > > incapacitated passengers who do not require any medical clearance or special > forms and > > only require special assistance at the airport or in embarking/disembarking. > > > In view of the above, all the airlines are directed to formulate a detailed > policy for > > carriage of disabled persons or persons with reduced mobility including > blind and publish the > > same on their respective website. All the airlines are also directed to make > the same available > > at different airports and also sensitize their employees in this regard. > > Non-compliance of the above instructions will be viewed very seriously. > > Yours faithfully, > > 264 > > (Lalit Gupta) > > Deputy Director General > > For Director General of Civil Aviation > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > 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 > > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
