“This is my community, these are my people,” the pilot said. I would have wanted someone to help her if she had been in this situation,” Michelle said. “For me, helping these people, I also see my mom there.
Many of the passengers have never been on a plane before.įor Michelle, those factors make her volunteer work all the more important, because she feels she can relate to the passengers as a woman and as a Latina she can talk to them in their language and help them feel more calm, she said. The profile of the typical woman who seeks assistance from Elevated Access is “a woman of color, who is already a mother, of low income,” Fiona said. She fell in love with flying and became an instructor. Michelle, a young female volunteer pilot who is Latina, said she fell in love with aviation after she graduated from college and decided to become a flight attendant before going to grad school. If somebody feels like they need to use a fake first name, they can definitely do that," said the founder, who goes by Mike, in the interview. “There’s no ticketing or TSA or anything like that. In private aviation, ID verification is not necessary, the founder of Elevated Access said in an NPR interview. Most are already mothers, she said, and can't afford childcare or have someone who can take care of their children for an extended period of time.įor their own protection, pilots know as little information as possible about the people they are transporting. The flights are free for passengers seeking an abortion, saving them hundreds of dollars and days of travel.Īccording to Fiona, many women, especially those in service jobs with fewer economic resources, don't get days off at their jobs. For safety reasons, it doesn’t give out the staff's full names and they don’t give exact figures on how many people they have transported or where they've flown, Fiona said. The network is made up of some 350 volunteers - airplane pilots, staff on the ground and people from organizations that provide related support. Since then, they haven’t stopped, Elevated Access spokesperson Fiona told Noticias Telemundo. Wade, so they had to speed up the process. Kim became a volunteer at the nonprofit, which helps transport via small plane women who need to travel out of state to get a legal abortion.Įlevated Access was about to launch last May amid abortion restrictions in several states, when news leaked that the Supreme Court was going to strike down Roe v. On June 24, 2022, she searched online for organizations helping those who were about to lose access to abortion in their states, and she found Elevated Access. Wade and, with it, America’s constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, she knew she had to do something, she said. The day Kim learned that the Supreme Court had struck down Roe v.
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