You signed the Petition for an
Airline Passengers Bill of Rights at some point during the past year.
That's why you are receiving this email from the all-volunteer coalition
fighting for your rights in Congress and across the country. Some of you
may be seeing this newsletter for the first time, and others may be seeing it
for the first time in several months. We've changed email providers, at
least temporarily, so it this email is also coming from a different email
domain. We've had some delivery problems.
Donations needed: We desperately need contributions. The
press conference at San Francisco Airport supporting the new California PAX
Rights Bill cost approximately $1000. We need help to pay for travel and
expenses for the next important trip to Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York. We're releasing our 2007 Report Card in D.C., and
then supporting passengers' rights bills in each of these states. This is
critical to future of federal legislation. We're driving our own cars,
paying for our own gas and food, but we must have enough money for hotels and
Kate's airfare.
So please help us to help you. We're working to prevent you or your
family members from being held on a tarmac without having food, potable water
(without coliform bacteria see below) and to
require time limits. Please visit http://www.flyersrights.com/contribute.html to
contribute or send a check to the address in the Donations section below.
Every little bit helps.
Contents:
The FAA Reauthorization Bill which contains
our hard fought passengers' rights language which is attached to thas been delayed is on life support. The problems
have nothing to do with our language. Senators have been unable to
resolve their differences in regard to unrelated funding issues, and now it
looks like the bill will not be passed during this Congress.
What does that mean to all of us? Well, we are still working on three
fronts; First, we are supporting passengers' rights bills in individual states
like New York, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Second, we are working
to change bad language in a DOT administrative rulemaking process that, if
improved, could effectively replace the legislation pending in the FAA bill
anyway; And third; we still have the original bills submitted in the House and
Senate that we can work to support.
State
Legislation Update - Hearing in NYC on March 5 We Need You!
Lots of activity here:
2007
Report Card Press Conference E-Coli in Your Water!
We will release our second and final
2007 report card on airline service at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
on February 27th. The CAPBOR report card will reveal what the
government statistics and the airlines refuse to report -
which airlines have the most strandings (prisoner
hours per airline) as reported by our 22,000 plus members and hotline
callers. We will also be revealing new Environmental Protection Agency
data on the amount of coliform bacteria found in
airline water. Yes, if you get a drink with ice, coffee or tea on at
least one airline you have almost a 50% chance of drinking coliform
infected water. The presence of coliform
indicates that organisms of fecal origin like E-coli may be present. And
you thought the other passengers were the ones making you ill!
American Airlines and United Airlines refused to allow the EPA to release their
results. Surprise, surprise.
Kate
Speaking at National Tarmac Delay Task Force Kickoff Meeting
As you may know, last month
Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters selected Kate Hanni
to be a member of the National Task Force to Develop Model Contingency Plans to
Deal with Lengthy Airline On-Board Ground Delays (Tarmac Delay Task
Force). Kate has also been asked to give the kickoff speech for the first
meeting in Washington on February 26th.
The Coalition Needs Volunteers
We're getting spread pretty thin
with all this work! Help! We need volunteers for the following
positions and other roles:
If you can help, please email Kate
or Mark (kate@flyersrights.com or mark@flyersrights.com).
Have
a Disability? Are You Afraid to Fly?
We're looking for people who have a
disability that causes you to be afraid to fly because of being stuck on
aircraft, or for any other reason. You must be willing to do a short
interview on camera talking about that fear.
We have implemented a subscription-based method of donation
so that you can sign up to donate automatically on a monthly basis. To
sign up please go to our website (http://www.flyersrights.com/contribute.html)
and select the monthly contribution of your choice. Credit cards or Paypal can still be used for single donations. For
the monthly subscription, you will need to set up a Paypal
account. It's easy! The buttons will walk you through the steps.
We also accept checks. Please make checks payable to "CAPBOR" and
send directly to:
CAPBOR
C/O Kate Hanni
159 Silverado Springs Drive
Napa, CA 94558
FYI, no one gets paid from these donations. All monetary contributions
pay for our bulk email service, website, and travel expenses.
Articles
Kate on Fox News Airline Water
Friday, February 15, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ijpB8rrcuA
Airline passengers may get extra benefits Kate Hanni
and Assemblyman Mark Leno
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=5955312
Getting serious about passenger rights
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23012559/
Straighten Up and Fly Right
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/straighten_up_and_fly_right.html
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Best Regards,
Coalition for an Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights
Kate Hanni
Founder and Spokesperson
CAPBOR
(707) 337-0328
http://www.flyersrights.com
http://strandedpassengers.blogspot.com