Sign our petition to reform the Montreal Convention, the international law that decides what an airline owes a woman who is harmed while traveling. We're asking for three specific changes.
Sign the PetitionIn 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Eastern Airlines v. Floyd, that a passenger cannot recover damages for purely psychological injury, injury with no accompanying physical wound. It means a woman can walk off a flight with documented PTSD, panic attacks, or months of flashbacks, and still be told, legally, that nothing compensable happened to her.
This isn't an accident of drafting. The 1929 Warsaw Convention, which the Montreal Convention carries forward, was explicitly written to shield a young, financially fragile airline industry from crushing liability. That protective design is nearly a century old. The industry it was built to protect is no longer young or fragile.
Change is already happening, just not here yet. In BT v. Laudamotion, before the European Court of Justice, a passenger diagnosed with PTSD after a traumatic evacuation argued that a documented psychiatric injury should count as bodily injury. The court's own legal advisor recommended reinterpreting the term to include it. Europe is actively reconsidering the exact question we're raising.
Sources: Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Floyd, 499 U.S. 530 (1991); BT v. Laudamotion GmbH, Case C-111/21 (CJEU)
Recognize diagnosed psychological trauma as compensable injury, treated the same way a broken bone is.
Close the "no touching" gap — non-contact sexual misconduct should explicitly qualify as a compensable accident.
Require visible in-cabin notices that sexual misconduct in flight is a federal felony. Airlines have already refused this voluntarily.
No signature count guarantees a response, there's no law that requires it. But here's exactly what each milestone means and what we do when we hit it, so you always know where things stand.
Our first proof point, enough to pitch press and show this isn't just one voice.
Formally delivered to the offices of both New York senators, and citable to press covering the campaign.
The number that turns this into a national story, delivered directly to Congress and the DOT.
International treaties don't change because it would be nice. They change because enough people make it impossible to ignore. We need 100,000 signatures.
We're delivering these signatures directly to the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over aviation policy and to the Department of Transportation, the people positioned to act now, while we build toward the larger goal of full treaty reform.
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