As a wheelchair user who has the misfortune of needing to fly quite often: my go-to method when this happens (which is about 30% of the time) is to refuse to leave. That way, a nice bunch of burly security officers come and lift me off, saving me the days of pain that dragging myself on the floor causes.
It’s awesome living in a society that doesn’t give a shit.
Doesn’t this get you banned?
For what, flying while legless?
Not that, refusing to leave and security being called.
So far, once security arrive and see that the person refusing to leave the plane is physically unable to leave the plane, the bat starts to get swung towards the airline. I’ve been lucky I guess in that the human factor always kicks in to my favour.
Once I had law enforcement called (I can’t remember where I was exactly - as frequent fliers can empathise with - but it was somewhere in east Asia, maybe China) to remove me and I was freaking out about being stuck into a prison, and when the officers arrived they took one look at me and started SCREAMING at the flight crew. If I hadn’t been stressed to the hilt and freaking about about the deadline I was missing I probably would have found it hilarious.
(Also sorry if I sounded facetious before, where I’m from being legless is slang for being drunk so I was making a joke that I now realise no one else will have got)
Good to hear!
Nice to hear there’s still a good amount of sensible people out there, and that some of them are even in law enforcement.
It’s easy to lump everyone together into the 'bad’uns" category, but from my experience even the worst of bad’uns have some humanity in them.
Sometime it’s just very deep down ;)
I heard you can get blacklisted by the airline
Im not usually one to suggest lawsuits, but baby would this be textbook discrimination
also probably breach of contract (you paid for someone to get you a wheelchair which didnt happen)
Honestly I would love them to try, I could use some extra cash.
That sounds like it would make for a great lawsuit.
Canada has a chief accessibility officer. The only reason I know this is because last month AirCanada lost her wheelchair.
That is quite possibly the most Air Canada thing ever.
She said that eight cleaning crew members, two flight attendants, and the captain and co-captain watched as she tried to help her husband exit the plane.
At first I was going to say, “how as a human being do you stand there and watch this?” But i have to think that many of those people wanted to help but felt that they could not. Instead, I’ll ask: What kind of terrible, shithole, money grubbing, leach on society company must this be to have made all of those employees too scared to step forward?
Except the captain. That is your plane, you subhuman piece of shit. The company you work for may be the devil, but you let this happen while it was your responsibility to fix it. You watched it and did nothing.
Air Canada is garbage, and Toronto Pearson is as well. My spouse flew into Toronto last summer with a school trip and they had to wait 11+ hours because the airport had a power surge that apparently took out their capability to charge the plane or some nonsense they told them. Numerous kids having to sleep on the floor and then they got split up across other flights when things finally got fixed.
An airport, that doesn’t have power surge protection and other contingencies in place for such events, when their sole job is to keep planes and passengers moving. Maddening.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Canadian officials have launched a probe after a man in a wheelchair said he was forced to drag himself out of an Air Canada plane because he was not offered assistance.
Rodney and Deanna Hodgins, a Canadian couple, said the incident happened on a flight from Vancouver to Las Vegas in August.
She said her husband, who has spastic cerebral palsy and who uses a motorised wheelchair, was not offered any help by Air Canada crew to get off the plane.
She said that eight cleaning crew members, two flight attendants, and the captain and co-captain watched as she tried to help her husband exit the plane.
“I was so mad at watching him fight to drag his uncooperative body so slowly and painfully,” she said, adding that he suffered muscle spasms as he tried to make his way toward the cockpit.
Accessibility advocates have long called for better rules to ease travel for people who require wheelchairs or other assistance, including allowing them to sit on their own chair during the flight.
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This isnt the full story Give all the facts. Air Canada doesnt provide the wheelchairs at airports. Airports have companies that do that. Also a wheelchair wont fit in an airplane they usually wait just outside the door
