Posted on 11/21/2006 12:07:21 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Protesting mothers breastfeed their babies at Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport in front of the Delta Airlines ticket counter as part of a nation-wide protest after a woman was kicked off a Delta airplane by a flight attendant for nursing her child.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)
Mothers Danielle Shield (L) and Alison Yaker (R) read a book about breastfeeding with their children near the Delta Airlines counter at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts November 21, 2006 as part of a national 'Nurse-In' protest in support of women's right to breastfeed in public. On October 13, 2006 Emily Gillette was removed from a Delta/Freedom Air flight out of Burlington, Vermont after she refused to cover her baby with a blanket while breastfeeding on the plane before take-off. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES)
Danielle Mountford, left, of Woodstock, Conn., breast feeds her daughter, Alexa Ross, 2 1/2, as Susan Parker, right, of Glastonbury, Conn., holds her daughter Anna, at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. Nursing mothers staged 'nurse-in' protests Tuesday to take up the cause of a woman ordered off a plane for breast-feeding her daughter too openly. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Florida has a similar law.
Of course! :~) We'll deal with your type later.
Except for that pesky state law protecting public nursing....
If La Leche League had its way, mothers would be visiting their sons at halftime in the locker room.
Spot on!
And the fact that the rules he cites provide no legitimate basis for the flight attendant's "instruction" to cover up the kid. It's not a safety issue: Delta's website says that infants can be held in the parent's arms during takeoff. It's not an "offensiveness" issue, since the mother was in a window seat, with her husband on the aisle -- a passenger would have to be craning pretty hard to be offended.
And now we know the reason for the protest. The flight attendant was STUPID. Thus, the flight attendant is being disciplined. I think he/she/it should be fired for causing all this bad press for an airline that can't afford to lose passengers.
Two America West pilots accused of trying to fly drunk on a Phoenix-bound flight from Miami last year are scheduled to be tried in Florida state court on July 7.
FAA also pulled licenses, separate issue.
A court in Florida, US has found two former America West pilots guilty of operating an aircraft full of passengers whilst being drunk.
Thomas Cloyd and Christopher Hughes were convicted on one count each of being guilty of operating an aircraft while intoxicated or in a reckless manner. The two men, who will be sentenced on 20 July, face a sentence ranging from probation to five years in prison, Reuters reported.
The two former pilots, who have been dismissed by the airline and lost their pilot licences, were arrested on 1 July 2002. Florida court finds America West pilots guilty
I was merely pointing out that to demand that a breastfeeding mother use "a bottle out of consideration for others" was assuming one's definition of a considerate act to be universally held, which is not true.
Nor does the state of Florida have jurisdiction in Vermont, where the incident took place. Delta Airlines, however, is required to abide by the laws of the state on the ground of which its planes are currently located.
That would be the FAA you're talking about and they're federal.
But Burlington International Airport is owned by the City of Burlington, not the FAA or the feds.....
The federal government has jurisdiction over airspace within its domain, and each state has authority over the space above the grounds within its borders except in places within the domain of federal regulation. An aircraft is subject to the authority of the federal government and to the authority of a particular state while traveling over it.
LOL!
I have found some flight attendants (who like men) to be especially difficult.
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