AZ
Being smelly is a disability under the ADA is it? Which clause? Is it the same one which allows Southwest to charge for a second seat for obese passengers? How is that not a disability under your somewhat fanciful definition. To put on an equal footing the challenges that people with significant impairments face and offensive body odour is a highly insulting definition and frankly outrageous.
The ADA defines “disability” as a “physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual.”
Based on that, help me out and explain how having body odour substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual. While you are at it, explain how being smelly is a physical or mental
impairment.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the airlines are in any event exempt from the ADA and are instead covered by DOT rules relating to handling passengers with a disability. I would love to see the DOT definition of disability which includes having B.O.
This is a forum for passenger complaints and responses to them. Just making stuff up is a bit pointless AZ...