Last week the Associated Press reported that a women was removed from a Delta Airlines flight for breastfeeding her child:
A commuter airline has disciplined a flight attendant who ordered a passenger off a plane for refusing to cover herself with a blanket while breast-feeding her toddler…. Emily Gillette, of Santa Fe, N.M. … said she was breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter in a window seat in the next-to-last row, with no part of her breast showing and her husband between her and the aisle. The flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to nurse her daughter. Breast-feeding is protected under state law.
The full AP story, available here, reports that Gillette has lodged a formal complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission. The Washington Post carried a related story that at least 30 “nurse-ins” have been staged at airports across the country to protest the actions of the Delta Air Lines flight attendant.
Delta has a dedicated customer service email address, “[f]or whatever your needs may be,” according to the company’s website.
-Posted by Bridget Crawford
