Are Airports being negligent in more ways than one?

"The Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Airport is spending nearly half a million dollars to add fragrances to their HVAC systems in restrooms - the same restrooms they're spending $8 MILLION in accessibility grants on.

While some may not notice, for sensitive or allergic people like us, these exposures make it difficult or impossible to travel through airports safely. If you can't safely use scented restrooms, you've practically lost access to the airport itself.

As you know, these systems do more than add scent. Peer-reviewed research shows that fragranced products release airborne chemical pollutants, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), secondary pollutants, and ultrafine particles that may affect everyone, not just sensitive people.

Call to action!

If fragrance chemicals in airport restrooms affect your health, limit your ability to safely travel, or cause you to completely avoid travel through DFW,

PLEASE let them know - personal accounts matter!

Reference Contract PA1991 and ask for fragrance-free restroom access as an ADA accommodation.

Please be respectful, factual, and specific about how these exposures affect you and what accommodations would improve accessibility." Lori

Contact: ada@dfwairport.com

cc: askdfw@dfwairport.com  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: FFC acknowledges the tenacious work of co-founder Lori DeMoss, who spent many sleepless nights investigating the atrocious acts of her own local airport, where she had once worked tirelessly to secure accommodations. A very in depth report has been shared with the above contacts and many more at DFW.