Katja
Dec 17, 09, 10:37 am
From Rolling Rains: Australian Human Rights Commission: Fix the Raw Airline Deal for Australians with Disability (http://www.rollingrains.com/2009/12/australian-human-rights-commission-fix-the-raw-airline-deal-for-australians-with-disability.html)
With the release of the Australian Government's Aviation White Paper today, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, urged the government to ensure airlines and airports have self regulating access facilitation plans for equal treatment of people with disability in place by mid 2010, or face government regulation if they don't.
"Airlines have been aware of problems experienced from check-in to check-out for several years, and some have been too slow in dealing with them." Commissioner Innes said. "The Government's announcement on travel for passengers with disability, as part of its aviation white paper today, is therefore very welcome."
With the release of the Australian Government's Aviation White Paper today, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, urged the government to ensure airlines and airports have self regulating access facilitation plans for equal treatment of people with disability in place by mid 2010, or face government regulation if they don't.
"Airlines have been aware of problems experienced from check-in to check-out for several years, and some have been too slow in dealing with them." Commissioner Innes said. "The Government's announcement on travel for passengers with disability, as part of its aviation white paper today, is therefore very welcome."