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Two U.S. Airlines Announced They Will No Longer Accept Medical Exemptions for Face Masks
For the majority of the businesses requiring customers to wear face masks, they ofter an exemption to those with certain medical conditions. (They also exempt those under the age of 2, per the recommendation of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.) However, a couple of major U.S. airlines have just reversed their policies on their mask mandates. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both decided that they will no longer allow medical exemptions as a reason not to wear a face mask. (www.yahoo.com) 更多...
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Many of us are allergic to those mangy things too!
Mark; interesting. When does the right of a person with an emotional support dog outweigh the right of a person with severe allergies to dogs on a plane?
It has nothing to do with just an ESA. If a passenger is blind and the service animal is a guide dog, then the ACAA require the airline to accommodate the service animal. They can not be refused service because of their disability, whereas the passenger with the allergies is not disabled.
No, that's been abused as well. One does not rule out the other.
ESAs are already covered by the Air Carrier Access Act. All the airlines have to do is exercise their rights under that act and ask the holder of the ESA for documentation as to why they need the ESA. If they ask, then by law, the passenger has to provide it. If they don't have it or can't provide it, they don't fly.
Pure and simple. In fact, here it is again:
https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer-protection/service-animals-including-emotional-support-animals
What kind of documentation can be required of persons travelling with emotional support animals and psychiatric service animals?
Airlines may require documentation that is not older than one year from the date of your scheduled initial flight that states:
1. You have a mental or emotional disability that is recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM);
2. You need your emotional support or psychiatric support animal as an accommodation for air travel and/or for activity at your destination;
3. The individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional and the passenger is under his/her professional care; and
3a. The licensed health care professional’s;
3b. Date and type of professional license; and
4. Jurisdiction or state in which their license was issued.
All you need to do is tell the airlines to ENFORCE THE DAMNED LAW.
Pure and simple. In fact, here it is again:
https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer-protection/service-animals-including-emotional-support-animals
What kind of documentation can be required of persons travelling with emotional support animals and psychiatric service animals?
Airlines may require documentation that is not older than one year from the date of your scheduled initial flight that states:
1. You have a mental or emotional disability that is recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM);
2. You need your emotional support or psychiatric support animal as an accommodation for air travel and/or for activity at your destination;
3. The individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional and the passenger is under his/her professional care; and
3a. The licensed health care professional’s;
3b. Date and type of professional license; and
4. Jurisdiction or state in which their license was issued.
All you need to do is tell the airlines to ENFORCE THE DAMNED LAW.
Prefer to sit next to an emotional support animal than humans
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Or...are some selfish people more equal than others?