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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a legitimate health matter and that’s a long flight.  I’m sorry you even entertain the notion of being considered a “diva” for being concerned about your physical well-being on a long-haul flight at 31 weeks pregnant.  I would ask. [/quote]

How is it a legitimate health matter? What about business class is healthier?[/quote]
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I would be annoyed as a manager/owner and would lose respect for you (and I have flown pregnant many times for work). Use your own points or pay the difference [/quote]

Your pregnancy experience is irrelevant to your employees pregnancy experience, and [b]“I would lose respect for a pregnant woman requesting accommodations”[/b] is “I will soon lose a discrimination lawsuit”[/quote]

PP didn't say what you quoted.  There is a difference between a person asking for an employer to pay for an upgrade [i]regardless of the reason[/i] and a person submitting a formal medical accommodation request.  If OP can get a doctor to say that her pregnancy itself is a medical condition and that sitting in a roomier seat will enable her to fly safer, then of course the employer should grant that request.  But I agree with others that the most likely appropriate accommodation is not flying at all.  The difference in seat is about comfort, and ANYBODY would want that.  [/quote]

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