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In 2022, it was announced that the DOT had published the Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights. It (as stated by the DOT) “describes the fundamental rights of air travelers with disabilities under the Air Carrier Access Act and its implementing regulation, 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 382.” [6] [7]
Airlines are required to provide passengers with disabilities any assistance they may need in order to travel properly like all other passengers. This includes allowing them with a wheelchair or other guided assistance to board, helping them disembark from a plane upon landing, or connecting these individuals to another flight.
The European Union Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) legislation is intended to ensure that Persons with Reduced Mobility (whether disabled, elderly or otherwise) traveling via public transport, whether by air, land or sea, should have equal access to travel as compared to travelers with unrestricted mobility.
In 2023, the airline came under fire after a viral video showed a baggage handler send a wheelchair crashing down and off a ramp. The incident led to an investigation into the carrier by the U.S ...
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Access Now, Inc. v. Southwest Airlines Co., 227 F. Supp. 2d 1312 (S.D. Fla. 2002), was a decision of the United States District Court on 18 August 2002. It concerned the nature of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States, formed in 1940 from a split of the Civil Aeronautics Authority [1] and abolished in 1985, that regulated aviation services (including scheduled passenger airline service [2]) and, until the establishment of the National Transportation Safety Board in 1967, conducted air accident investigations.