27/05/2025
What Delta Air Lines just did to this Marine and law enforcement officer is OUTRAGEOUS.
Matias Ferreira - we've got your six. My friends... READ this then REPOST everywhere and make some noise!!!
I typically don’t rant on social media about my daily issues, but this one really upset me and I’m hoping that it reaches someone who can help me to make some sort of change.
Yesterday I booked a last minute flight to Atlanta on Delta to surprise my god daughter for her first birthday and my family who I hadn’t seen in a while.
I typically book an aisle seat on the exit row so that I can stretch my legs out and have a little more space than the other seats. They typically ask if you’re willing and able to assist in a case of an emergency and I respond YES.
This time, one of the gate agents board the plane, comes up and says sir, I can see you have a physical disability, I’m going to have to move you.
I told him that I am willing and able to perform the duties required of me. I am an active PO / U.S Marine who still competes in many physical areas of sports and life.
They called and said something about the FAA states that if you have a physical disability you can’t sit in those seats and cannot take off until I move. I stood up, I was moved a few seats up, into a middle seat, embarrassed.
I have sat in these seats numerous times; ready and willing to assist in case something happened; today I was told that I am not capable of doing this because I have a “physical disability.”
What my goal is, to raise awareness on what people with disabilities and or prosthetics are capable of doing. I coach, mentor, work with veterans, law enforcement officers, and many other people including children who are MORE than capable of being useful and reliable despite a “Disability.”
Let’s talk about it.
REPOST!!