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This data is incredible – let’s keep these airlines accountable. Hopefully international airlines will do the same.
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Checking in on Wheelchair Damage: How Airlines Are Doing - Wheelchair Travel
With airline wheelchair damage statistics available for the first 8 months of 2023, how are carriers handling passengers' mobility devices?
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Well, I’m a bit happier my Japan flight is Delta now. Great info!
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With SPIRIT at the bottom, it just gives another reason not to fly them. (For those who don’t know, SPIRT is very trashy. You see them in the news often for their unruly passengers. And they ‘nickel and dime’ every little detail.)
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alliejay replied to the discussion Finding if a flight has an accessible toilet in the forum Flying with a Disability a year ago
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I have only seen them on long haul flights myself but it’s not consistent in my experience.
Ooooops 💦 Picked the wrong person – hopefully it will bring change faster!
globalnews.ca
Canada's chief accessibility officer says her wheelchair was left in Toronto after she boarded an Air Canada flight to Vancouver, describing the experience as 'unacceptable.'
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Some people in Toronto are about to experience the country’s unemployment laws.
Wow! Let’s hope this does create change ASAP. But, it shouldn’t have to take messing with the top accessibility leader of the nation to create these changes.
But, I’m not surprised this happened. I have a friend with a disability in Calgary. He takes WESTJET a lot…
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Someone didn’t get the VIP memo I see. Hope it spurs change as well.
Have you flown with Jet 2? What was your experience like?
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Josh Grisdale replied to the discussion Finding if a flight has an accessible toilet in the forum Flying with a Disability a year ago
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Good point. Yes, I was envisioning a large airplane (787 or 747), transferring to an aisle chair and being wheeled to the toilet where the toilet is either large enough for the aisle chair to go inside, or two middle toilets have the partition removed and act as a large toilet.
I have used both in the past and wondered if all airlines have…
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