MemberJosh Grisdale
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US Accessibility Standards for Airlines Going Down for the Next Four Years?
Is anyone else worried that accessibility standards for airlines in the U.S. might decline over the next four years?
We’ve had an excellent Transportation Secretary in Pete Buttigieg. He addressed American Airlines’ poor record of damaging medical equipment and imposed fines amounting to millions of dollars. He has also been supportive of…
With recent developments like the FAA’s roadmap for wheelchair seating on airplanes and significant fines imposed on airlines for mistreating disabled passengers, do you feel that accessible travel is finally being taken more seriously? How quickly do you think the tourism industry will implement meaningful changes in accessibility?
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I believe it will be a VERY long time until us wheelchair travellers will be able to travel just like any other person, i.e.. just book a ticket and turn up☹️
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I don’t have any issues having to make arrangements ahead of time for my wheelchair. The thing that still puzzles me is how often I provide the information ahead of time and fill have to do it again when I get to the airport. I find few airlines have streamlined the flow of this information. Have others had similar experiences?
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Did you see this website?
Reply to JR Pass - Shinkansen wheelchair reserved seat
UPDATE and FINAL RESULTS : we are back from Japan, and Shinkansen booking was really much more easy than we thought. We went directly to a Shinkansen Ticket office in Tokyo Station at 9:30 AM, with the document we carefully prepared with our 4 journeys on the Shinkansen : Tokyo > Kyoto, Kyoto > Hiroshima (and back the same day), and Kyoto…
Reply to Booking Wheelchair Seats on the Shinkansen
I helped some people the other day that booked their tickets through Klook. Then they just scanned a QR code at the designated shinkansen ticket machines and printed them out. In general, I am not a fan of using third parties, and this was just for 2 people, but you might want to look into them. Normally, I would dig into this further, but I…
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