Flying with a Disability
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Seriously? Food carts?!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wheelchair-british-airlines-1.7064207
cbc.ca
A passenger who travelled through Vancouver International Airport during the summer of 2022 says he almost lost his foot to an injury that turned septic, after he was unable to disembark from a British Airways flight for hours.
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Come on, Canada. You’re great with people of color and the LGBTQIA+ community. Do the same for us people with disabilities. (Yes, I know the States aren’t perfect.)
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It doesn’t make sense that they didn’t have an aisle wheelchair at the airport or on board that would work. I mean if it wasn’t an International Airport (IA) then maybe they wouldn’t have one, but it was an IA! I feel like someone dropped the ball here, like maybe they lent them all to airlines without tracking their on-hand stock, because…
Even when things don’t go as planned, we should still have the right to board.
usatoday.com
'Extremely humiliating': Why this passenger crawled to his seat on a flight
Sean Chang said he was running late getting through security, and the boarding assistance he normally relies on was not available.
Some good tips for manual wheelchair users planning their flight:
British Airways Introduces Signed Video Content for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Customers
skift.com
IDEAS: British Airways Introduces Signed Video Content for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Customers
British Airways is set to provide more enhanced signed video content for deaf and hard-of-hearing customers.
A very articulate interview about the challenges of air travel and the benefits of improving accessibility
cbsnews.com
Easterseals aims to make air travel more accessible to people with disabilities
With the holiday travel season upon us, a new Easterseals campaign aims to make air travel more accessible to people with disabilities.
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Yeah, the video in the middle of the page was good. The top one made me cringe with “wheelchair-bound”. Seriously?!
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