Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Ziv, you brought something up at the very tail end of one of your responses. You talked about how certain airlines are able to move horses or livestock and that sort of thing in a safe and reliable manner. You can imagine the international outrage or the justifiable hand-wringing that would happen should a horse not survive an international flight, yet we heard from both you and Ms. Hewitt about how the damage to your personalized mobility equipment worsened your physical and mental health for years and years and years.
These incidents, again, are not a case of, “Well, that wasn't a good travel experience.” They're a case of, “This has negatively impacted my life for the foreseeable future.” Maybe you can expand on that.
We also heard the suggestion that we should treat equipment like minor children, so there would a dedicated person who is responsible for that equipment.
I hope you get what I'm trying to get at.
Very practically, what needs to change for you to be assured that your equipment, which is life-giving and necessary to protect your physical and mental health, is given the correct standing by the airlines? What would it take for you to have that level of safety?
What needs to change specifically? What can we recommend that the government either request or compel the airlines to do to make that safe for you?