Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August
  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    Airlines won’t let passengers use their own wheelchairs on the plane because the aisles are too narrow.

    Normally the airline has transfer wheelchairs available at the gate that are designed to fit in the plane for the purpose of moving passengers on and off the plane.

    • baconisaveg@lemmy.ca
      125·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t ask how it works, I know how it works. I asked why he feels it’s the airlines legal responsibility to provide him with a wheelchair to the point that they get (and I quote) “screwed hard” when one wasn’t available. When did Lemmy turn into Twitter, just unintelligent people screaming at Facebook headlines?

      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
        181·
        1 year ago

        Disabilities are one of those things we, rightfully, take making accomodations for seriously. I’ll admit I’m not familiar with Canadian law, but at least in the states, this would ABSOLUTELY be an ADA violation, for good reason, failure to make reasonable, or any, accomodation.