Thursday, January 05, 2006

Breast-feeding mother receives letter of apology (The Eureka Reporter)

K.K. Tetrault, a Eureka resident who alleged that a SkyWest flight attendant told her to stop breast-feeding her 7-month-old son, Ronan, was sent a recent letter of apology by SkyWest Airlines Inc.

“I feel very satisfied,” Tetrault said. “I think they acknowledged my discomfort and they were sincerely sorry about the occurrence and made amends.”

Tetrault was on a flight home from Fresno on Dec. 4 when, she said, a SkyWest flight attendant told her to stop nursing her baby out of concern for the other passengers on the flight.

Tetrault said the flight attendant also encouraged her to wait until the plane arrived at the San Francisco International Airport before continuing to nurse her child, but in the meantime was offered a blanket to cover herself and child.

After the plane landed, she said, the flight attendant said the request to stop breast-feeding was a matter of company policy.


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