Comments on: AirAsia Still Practices Discrimination Against Disabled People

By: » Discrimination Against Disabled Airlines Passengers | Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening |

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:25:45 +0000

[...] in Rolling Rains Reports. He gave his perspective on my experience in having to sign an indemnity form before I was allowed to board an AirAsia plane [...]

By: » My Ride Ends Here | Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening |

» My Ride Ends Here | Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening | — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:15:45 +0000

[...] reaction from some of my colleagues in BEAT to my circulating an email on the bad experience with AirAsia to the entire group recently literally took the wind out of my sail. I was chided for revealing [...]

By: » AirAsia, Wheelchair Users And Indemnity Form: The Ongoing Saga Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:35:15 +0000

[...] no satisfactory official response forthcoming from AirAsia regarding the policy of imposing indemnity form on wheelchair users after more than two months, I decided to refer my complaint to the Minister of Transport [...]

By: » Kota Kinabalu - Day 4: October 30, 2007 Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening

» Kota Kinabalu - Day 4: October 30, 2007 Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:57:08 +0000

[...] time to get to the departure lounge, we were thoroughly annoyed when an AirAsia officer sprang an unwelcome surprise on [...]

By: Peter Tan - The Digital Awakening » Blog Archive » Airlines, Indemnity Forms And Disability Advocates

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:35:51 +0000

[...] have flown with Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia. AirAsia is the only airlines that compels wheelchair users to sign an indemnity form before allowing them to board the aircraft. I have no complaints whatsoever against Japan Airlines. [...]

By: Rich - 'Fly air Asia? Not me.'

Rich - 'Fly air Asia? Not me.' — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:05:21 +0000

Dear Peter,

By all means feel free to reproduce the following article on your excellent site - keep up the fight! http://airasiaannus.blogspot.com/2007/12/laughter-is-best-medicine.html

Best wishes,

Rich

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:10:16 +0000

I noticed that the form says Pregnancy as well as Infant passengers. I was wondering when was this introduced because when my wife was pregnant last year in February with visible bump, she was not made to sign such form. Then we traveled on numerous occasions with our infant and was not asked to sign this form. So I should expect them to ask my wife to sign this form when we travel to Johor (Singapore) next month when she’s about 5 months pregnant right?

Peter:
You should read Clause 7.4 of AirAsia’s T&C.

By: TBG

TBG — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:20:10 +0000

I also had to sign the same form when I was flying AirAsia during my pregnancy. Worse, they wanted a doctor’s letter to prove that I was safe to fly. I asked why I should get the letter and the staff’s reply, in a nutshell, was if anything goes wrong, they can then refer to, read “put the blame on”, the doctor who wrote that letter.

Peter:
Welcome to my world.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:01:39 +0000

I’m glad to see you are putting the word out about the way you were treated. It’s appalling. I know from experience that it can be difficult to speak up when it happens on a personal level (easier to advocate in general ways) - and applaud you for doing it. Best wishes.

Peter:
This is the least I can do to reveal what I was put through.

By: eleanor

eleanor — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:00:50 +0000

Here are the links Peter.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/01/06/etairasia06.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6233295.stm

I don’t know where my brother got his idea that Air Asia was arriving in Coventry….