The recently passed ‘Friendly Airports for Mothers (FAM) Act’ requires the 61 large and medium hub airports in the U.S.
FAM Act protects nursing travelers in U.S. While each space varies in size and features, they’re all designed to sooth visitors of all ages. Pittsburgh's 1,500-square-foot space is open 24/7 and features a replicate airplane cabin for parents and children to practice sitting on a plane. To help those on the spectrum deal with the stress of unfamiliar sounds and places, at least seven airports – Shannon in Ireland London’s Gatwick Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, the Myrtle Beach Airport Lehigh Valley’s international airport and, most recently, Presley's Place at Pittsburgh International Airport – have launched sensory rooms. The flying experience is often challenging for travelers on the autism spectrum and their families. Presley's Place at Pittsburgh International Airport has a replica airplane cabin to help parents and children practice sitting in an airplane © Courtesy of Presley's Place Accommodating passengers with autism and developmental disabilities Kennedy International Airport, Washington Dulles International and Ronald Reagan Washington National each offer an Islamic center, a Jewish synagogue and a Catholic church and all serve as a spiritual comfort zone for travelers and airline employees. However, according to the International Association of Civil Aviation Chaplains, over half of the nation’s busiest airports now have interfaith chapels or prayer rooms that reflect the ever-evolving religious makeup of America. Initially, these sacred spaces were created for airline parishioners whose long hours interfered with their attendance to mass. As the nation’s second-oldest chapel it offers daily mass and performs weddings and baptismal for employees and passengers under the watchful gaze of a six-foot-tall statue of the Virgin Mary. Meantime, Our Lady of the Skies Chapel at JFK was founded in 1955. Today, the public chapel seats 250, serves mass daily and open around-the-clock mass for passengers, airport and airline employees. airport chapel, Our Lady of the Airways at Boston’s Logan International Airport in 1951, terminals around the globe have added spaces for prayer, worship and meditation.
© Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.Reflection rooms at airports provide travelers with a place to find a little peace of mind © Classen Rafael/ EyeEm Airport's sacred spaces Like the sun focused through a magnifying glass, A.A.'s single vision has lit a fire of faith in sobriety in millions of hearts, including mine. That purpose has promoted round-the-clock meeting schedules, and the thousands of intergroup and central service offices, with their thousands of volunteers.
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My beliefs are what make me human I am free to hold any opinion, but A.A.'s purpose - so clearly stated fifty years ago - is for me to keep sober. have never been scattered, but focused instead on our members and on individual sobriety. How much more grounded I feel to be in a Fellowship whose aims are constant and unflagging. How much it means to me that an unbroken tradition of more than half a century is a thread that connects me to Bill W. We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
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