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Passengers should be compensated for damaged items such as wheelchairs and assistive devices "in accordance with rules of international, Community and national law" Unfortunately the Montreal Convention restricts compensation to 1,131 SDRs (around $1,500), significantly less than the value of many wheelchairs. [3]
A little over 1% of wheelchairs and scooters were mishandled during the month of September, according to the latest Air Travel Consumer Report from the Department of Transportation. The new rule ...
It also outlines steps airlines must take if they damage or misplace a passenger's wheelchair — all in an effort to make the skies friendlier for the roughly 5.5 million Americans use a wheelchair.
The law says: “Where wheelchairs or other mobility equipment or assistive devices are lost or damaged during handling at the airport or during transport on board aircraft, the passenger to whom ...
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. Travel providers are compelled ...
She was flying from her home in Virginia to Frankfurt, Germany, via Lisbon on TAP Air Portugal in April, and when she arrived for her connection, she said her wheelchair came back damaged ...
Title 14 CFR – Aeronautics and Space is one of the fifty titles that make up the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Title 14 is the principal set of rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) issued by the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration, federal agencies of the United States which oversee Aeronautics and Space.
Two flights and three incidents of wheelchair damage highlight how tough air travel is for flyers with disabilities. 1 family, 3 damaged wheelchairs while flying: Travel needs 'complete overhaul ...