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Jane Prentice Assistant Minister for Social Services andPowerlessnessServices.Plans for the opening of a second ‘Changing Places’ facility at Brisbane’s International Terminal in the new year are well underway.Changing Places facilities are variegated from standard wieldy washroom amenities, providing spare space and specialised equipment such as an sultana transpiration table, hoist and toilet fitted with movable handrails for the use of people with severe disabilities and their personal carer providers.Stephen Goodwin, Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) Acting CEO said the opening of ‘Changing Places’ facility at Brisbane Airport would support many thousands of people with disabilities and their families who find it otherwise difficult to travel due to a lack of wangle to specialised amenities.“There are many people who live with serious and profound disabilities who require particular facilities for personal superintendency and, unfortunately, standard wieldy bathrooms do not cater to their needs. This can be a major windbreak to travel for a lot of people and this was a windbreak we wanted to remove.“It’s not just catering for a specific disability, we are focused on an ‘access for all’ tideway and have a team defended to ensuring we are not only meeting the regulations and legislation surrounding powerlessness access, but exceeding them.“This includes retrofitting existing buildings with facilities like we’re opening today and making sure all upgrades and new developments modernize wangle and the overall airport wits for people with special needs.“We moreover work very closely with many organisations representing the interests of various powerlessness groups to make sure we get it right,” Mr Goodwin said.The Hon. Jane Prentice MP congratulated BAC on their achievements to ensure social inclusion and accessibility.“The ‘Changing Places’ facility is an spanking-new sit-in of what can be achieved when whole communities work together to write the challenges faced by people with powerlessness every day,” Mrs Prentice said.Eddie Chapman, CEO of the Association for Children with aPowerlessnesswhich supportsWafflyPlaces, said although theWafflyPlaces facility is not yet a regulatory requirement, it will requite Brisbane Airport a world renowned wieldy facility for those travelling with or caring for someone with a severe disability.“Brisbane Airport has led the way in terms of not only making the airport wieldy for those with higher superintendency needs, but by doing so moreover opens up theMunicipalityof Brisbane to individuals and families with disabilities from other states. This is the sort of mainstream inclusion that we should expect of all our public facilities.”To stage Brisbane Airport has invested increasingly than $3 million in the last five years implementing its wide-stretching DisabilityWangleManagement Plan in wing to the funding for DDA compliance incorporated into other major projects.Other key ‘Access for All’ initiatives underway or introduced at Brisbane Airport include:Development of Brisbane Airport’sServiceabilityJourney Planner which is due for release later this yearCompletion of anWangleAudit Program wideness both terminals by an accredited wangle consultant who provided recommendations.Completion of a number of serviceability remediation projects including upgrading of public stairs, Tactile Ground Surface Indicators (TGSI’s) to escalators and travelators, lift upgrades and way-finding.In collaboration with QUT-based Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration: Carers and Consumers (DCRC-CC)developing a step by step guide - Ensuring a Smooth Journey: A Guide to Brisbane Airport for people living with Dementia and their Travel Companions – an whoopee plan and resources kit for airport staff to modernize the wits of air travel for people with dementia. Through this program Brisbane Airport was the first airport in Australia to be recognised by Alzheimer’s Australia as an tried Dementia Friendly organisation.In 2014, opening Australia’s first defended airport Assistance Animals ‘bathrooms’ in the International and Domestic Terminals. Share this Article Related Posts TagsAirlinesDestinationAustralia Read increasingly 27 Jun, 2016 27 Jun, 2016 Dublin Airport Wins EuropeanServiceabilityAward By Admin 1 Comments Image above: Dublin Airport Managing Director, Vincent Harrison unsuspicious theWieldyAirportRibbonfrom Yannis Yallouros, EuropeanPowerlessnessForum's Executive Committee.  Dublin NamedWeightierAirport in Europe forServiceabilityat ACI EUROPE AwardsDublin Airport has won a major European ribbon for the way in which it deals with disabled passengers and those travelling with reduced mobility.Dublin Airport won the inauguralWieldyAirportRibbonat ACI EUROPE’sWeightierAirport Awards in Athens last night. Separately Dublin Airport was moreover short-listed in the weightier large airport category, which was won by Heathrow Airport.“We are veritably delighted to win this prestigious ribbon for serviceability superiority of all our European peers,” said Dublin Airport Managing Director Vincent Harrison. “This ribbon recognises the significant efforts that the Dublin Airport team makes on a daily understructure to ensure that disabled passengers and those with reduced mobility have the weightier possible airport experience. Winning this prize is a major endorsement for what we have achieved in this zone to stage and will encourage us to protract to modernize the service that we offer to our disabled customers and to travellers with reduced mobility.”The judges for the ribbon found that Dublin Airport “excels in serviceability features and facilities, including sultana waffly places, two separate relief areas for guide dogs, fully wieldy retail and catering areas” and had service level agreements for assistance provision that exceed the European standards. The judges moreover cited Dublin Airport’s website accessibility, which meets the required serviceability standards for persons with disabilities.“This is Dublin Airport’s second major customer-related ribbon in just four months, which underscores our focus on ensuring that all our passengers have the weightier possible wits when they use the airport,” Mr Harrison said. Earlier this year Dublin Airport was rated number one for passenger wits superiority all other European airports of a similar size in the 2015 ACI Airport Service Quality survey. “As passenger numbers increase, we intend to protract to enhance the passenger wits for all customers. We are currently investing €10 million to upgrade the arrivals zone in Terminal 1 and we moreover have recently installed new will-less tray return systems at passenger screening to help make this process increasingly efficient.”TheWieldyAirportRibbonwas introduced by ACI Europe this year to mark the 10th year-end of the adoption of Regulation (EC) 1107/2006 which relates to the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air.ACI EUROPE partnered with the EuropeanPowerlessnessForum (EDF) to present the new award. As well as rewarding the weightier airport in Europe for serviceability the ribbon was moreover designed to encourage other European airports to protract their work on removing the barriers that people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility still squatter when travelling by air.The judging panel for theWieldyAirportRibboncomprised members of the EuropeanPowerlessnessForum’s Executive Committee as well as Fotis Karamitsos, Acting Deputy Director-General for Mobility and Transport; Coordination of Directorates C and D, in the European Commission.TheWieldyAirportRibbonwas presented to Dublin Airport Managing Director Vincent Harrison at a gala dinner in Athens last night by Yannis Yallouros, who is a member of the EuropeanPowerlessnessForum’s Executive Committee.Dublin Airport is Ireland’s key international gateway, written for 82% of all air passengers into and out of the State. Last year Dublin Airport prestigious its 75th birthday by setting a new a new all-time record for traffic, as it welcomed increasingly than 25 million passengers.  So far this year, passenger numbers are up 14% to scrutinizingly 10.3 million. Dublin Airport has uncontrived flights to over 180 destinations in 40 countries on four continents, and will welcome 16 new services this year. Share this Article Related Posts TagsAirlines Read increasingly 09 Jun, 2016 09 Jun, 2016 SWISS website now wieldy to all By Admin 1 Comments Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) makes its air travel services as misogynist to its customers as it possibly can. This policy applies to all its online facilities, too: the cadre functions of the swiss.com website have now been made fully wieldy to veiling and visually wordless users or customers with other physical disabilities. SWISS has thus extended the serviceability of its services at the airport and inflight to its online platform, too.The cadre functions of the swiss.com website have been comprehensively overhauled to make them wieldy to all. As a result, veiling and visually wordless users and those with other physical disabilities can now hands book, rebook or trammels in for their flights online. The veiling and visually impaired, for instance, can use screen reader software to have text read aloud to them, and can navigate the site increasingly hands via their keyboard entries.The fully wieldy part of the swiss.com website once meets the AA standard of Web ContentServiceabilityGuidelines (WCAG) 2.0. And the unshortened site should meet this standard by the end of 2016.The revised swiss.com website remoter expands SWISS’s range of services for customers with restricted mobility. On the ground, specially trained staff protract to be misogynist to provide these travellers with the spare superintendency they need. SWISS offers escorts for both valedictory and arriving travellers, withal with the self-ruling use at the airport of wheelchairs and transport vehicles.Travellers with restricted mobility are moreover invited to workbench and deplane surpassing other passengers; and up to two wheelchairs and an assistance dog will be transported self-ruling of charge. SWISS moreover provides a wheelchair on workbench on all its long-haul flights and (on request) for its short-haul services, too. And SWISS motel personnel are sensitized to the special needs of travellers with restricted mobility, to ensure that they are offered optimum superintendency and assistance throughout their time aboard.For remoter details of SWISS’s special services for travellers with restricted mobility please visit.  Share this Article Related Posts TagsAirlines Read increasingly 20 Oct, 2015 20 Oct, 2015 Indoor Service Animal/Pet Relief Room Opens at O'Hare International Airport By Admin 1 Comments CHICAGO, October 20, 2015 - The Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) announces the opening of an indoor service animal/pet relief room at O'Hare International Airport.Located past security checkpoints in the Rotunda zone of Terminal 3, the room is specially designed to unbend passengers traveling with service animals or pets. It is particularly user-friendly for those with layovers/connecting flights at O'Hare. It will enhance the traveling wits for individuals with disabilities considering they no longer need to pass when through security to relieve their service animal.The recently-opened indoor service animal/pet relief room at O'Hare is located just north of the Rotunda in Terminal 3.The room has two, 2-foot by 4-foot pet relief areas well-constructed with strained grass covering, miniature fire hydrants and pop-up sprinkler systems to wash yonder liquid waste into a drain. In addition, a mounted hose bib and reel is misogynist for transmission spraying and plastic tons are provided for clean-up. The room is enclosed, has a door with a glass pane that opens and closes automatically, and is designed for wheelchair access. The room moreover includes two sinks for passenger use."We are pleased to offer this new mindfulness for passengers, expressly those who depend on the assistance of service animals when they travel through our airport," said CDA Commissioner Ginger S. Evans. "This is flipside way we are making O'Hare International Airport increasingly wieldy to the traveling public and creating a increasingly welcoming environment for visitors to Chicago."The room features two pet relief areas with hydrants, and plastic bags, sinks and a hose for wipe up.The CDA coordinated with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) to ensure the room is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards.The room features two pet relief areas with hydrants, and plastic bags, sinks and a hose for wipe up."The new indoor unprepossessing relief zone located in the secured terminal of O'Hare International Airport will enhance the traveling wits for individuals with service animals, particularly those with connecting flights," said MOPD Commissioner Karen Tamley. "This full-length is flipside step towards our goal of making Chicago a world matriculation wieldy municipality for people with disabilities."In wing to the new airside unprepossessing relief room, there are three outdoor service animal/ pet relief areas located near the lower level prorogue front of Terminals 1, 2 and 5. The Terminal 1 and 5 outdoor locations were opened in 2009 and the Terminal 2 location was widow in 2014. Midway International Airport moreover has an outdoor service unprepossessing and pet relief zone located near the lower level prorogue front at the north end of the terminal that opened in 2009.Real grass, gravel or wood fries are used inside the fenced-in areas and plastic tons and garbage cans are provided. CDA and custodial staff monitor the areas throughout the day to ensure cleanliness. 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