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BREAKING NEWS: Improved Wheelchair Accessibility in Aircraft Set to Become Reality in 2025 ⤵
Anthony @ TWIA, alliejay and Josh Grisdale1 Comment-
After years of petitioning and broken wheelchairs, so excited to see this get to the current stage!
‘Airline Damaged Your Wheelchair? Here’s What to Do!’
https://theworldisaccessible.com/airline-damaged-your-wheelchair-heres-what-to-do/
Feel free to add your comments and opinions either below or in the comment section of the actual article itself.
There’s even a special input from @joshgrisdale – giving his top advice regarding photo evidence of…
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Learned from experience!
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How long did it take to get your chair repaired or replaced, Josh? I’m reading that they have designed seats or rows of seats to be removed so that wheelchair users can remain in their chairs for the duration of the flight – do we have any idea as to when those chair accommodations will be readily available on US flights routinely?
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This video from @daniellevates is hilarious
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The content @daniellevates puts out there is so damn good 😊
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What was your WORST flight experience?
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On a flight from LAX to SJC, I ended up being separated from the group I was traveling with. It was my first time flying with a group, and I forgot to mention that we all needed to be at the gate together. As a result, everyone arrived at the gate individually. Since we hadn’t traveled to the airport together, I boarded first as usual, and my…
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Not sure about worst (although there was a time on Thai Airlines where we seemed to drop about 3,000 metres in a matter of seconds which really put the cat amongst the pigeons) but best flight was definitely a red eye from Oman to London. Plane was practically empty and I had the entire back five rows to myself. Slept like a baby and…
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I like this idea 🤩
yahoo.com
‘Disabled air passengers should pay less, because we’re getting worse service’
Earlier this week, the BBC journalist Frank Gardner shared on social media that he had been forced to crawl to the toilet on a plane. The security correspondent, who was paralysed when he was shot by al-Qaeda sympathisers in 2004, … Continue reading
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Here, in the States, someone could sue, saying this would discriminate against those without disabilities.
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Love this article, I need to send this to Air Canada for not accepting me on board and booking me at a later time because of my wheelchair. Beforehand I was advised to call the customer assist and customer assist line told me to buy a new ticket since im late in arriving but 48 hours before i called Air Canada already and checked in on line…
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