Air France, ordered to pay a couple of blind people by refusing to sell a ticket The airline demanded that they accompany a sighted person to attend to less than four years they were traveling.
A French court on Wednesday ordered the airline to Air France gala with 2,000 euros compensation to a blind couple who refused to sell a ticket in March 2004 on the pretext of traveling with a baby six meses.Sébastien Philippini and Sandrine Troadec wanted to make the flight Nice-Brest with his baby but the company required a sighted person to accompany them to meet the child. The couple then went to court to file a complaint of "discrimination." Initially, the Nice court ordered Air France to sell the return ticket on the date chosen by the couple, who could finally make the trip, but both had the criminal complaint of discrimination, which is the airline ganar.La just claimed that "under the principle of precaution" blind parents of a child under four years can not be considered "responsible companion" , accuracy contained in the company's internal instructions and that, as submitted by Air France at the time, is not questioned by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
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