This article mentions a new networking site just for air travelers.
www.AirTroductions.com
There needs to be a support group just for traveling breastfeeding and/or
pumping moms.
Judy

http://www.theolympian.com/travel/story/156809.html

Avoid air hassles: Be on best behavior

BETH J. HARPAZ 
The Associated Press 
NEW YORK - During the past few months, passengers have been kicked off
airplanes or detained at airports for uncontrolled coughing, joking about
hijacking, breast-feeding a baby, kissing and other amorous activities,
cursing at flight attendants who denied them alcohol, failing to get a
screaming child buckled in for takeoff, and carrying a sippy cup of water.
...
Here are five tips to get to your destination this summer without getting
scolded, grilled, detained or escorted off a plane:

. Be discreet: "The No. 1 tip is the 'I wasn't raised in a barn' tip.
Whatever you wouldn't do in a church, don't do on a plane," said Peter
Shankman, founder of AirTroductions.com, a social-networking site for air
travelers. "If there's ever been a time in your life where you don't want to
attract more attention to yourself, it's on a plane."

Federal rules say that "no one may interfere, intimidate or threaten a crew
member," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Alison Duquette.
"It's completely up to the pilot in command if they want to not allow
someone to take a flight."  [The PIC on Emily Gillette's Freedom Air flight
caved to the offended cabin attendant.]

That means air crews have a lot of discretion in deciding what constitutes
disruptive behavior.

"From my experience, if a passenger's behavior is offensive to other
passengers on board, then the airline reserves the right to deny boarding or
to ask for the passenger to be removed," said David Castelveter, spokesman
for the Air Transport Association.
...
The case last fall of a woman ordered off a flight in Vermont while
breast-feeding her baby resulted in protests in support of nursing mothers
at airports around the country. The airline involved later said its policy
does permit breast-feeding on planes. But Castelveter said there is no
industry-wide policy on the issue.

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