The dust has settled after the national nurse-in on Tuesday, November 21, 2006, and the final tally approaches 900 activists and children at 40 airports across the country! I’m impressed by the tremendous grassroots effort organized in just four days’ time!
As I said, most of the press has been extremely positive. I’ve seen just a bit of backlash from letters to the editors of newspapers covering the story, and a lot of heated debate on news message boards.
Overall I think the nurse-in and subsequent media coverage reflected positively on a woman’s ability to nurse in public. Certainly women airline passengers …read more

Mesa Air Group (which operates as US Airways Express, Delta Connection, and United Express) has issued a press release that sounds a little more like the apology I expected:
“So there is no confusion, I would like to let folks know that we firmly support mothers’ right to nurse their children on board our aircraft. We have no company policies whatsoever that hinder breastfeeding in any way,” said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “In this instance, a flight attendant who was relatively new to her job made an unfortunate and incorrect decision. We would like to again …read more