Airlines' Obligations to Disabled Passengers

[Magiver]

@Lynn_Bodoni

I don’t fly very often, but on several of the latest occasions the FA has offered to take my bag and put it in the overhead bin. When the flight’s over, the FA usually lifts my bag down for me, too. I never ask for this, it’s something that the FAs just offer to do. I use a cane or walking stick to help me walk, and ever since then, the FAs have started to offer this assistance. I usually fly American Airlines, for what it’s worth, but sometimes I fly other airlines.

I think it’s a nice thing to do but the other side of the coin is that people have gravitated away from stored luggage to heavy carry-on. And the average age of airline employees has certainly been driven up by seniority in a declining market. Age takes it’s toll. When I was a young man I could dead lift 180 lbs of concrete mix off the floor. Now I throw my back out picking up socks.