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- From: Howard.Dearman@f26.n130.z1.fidonet.org (Howard Dearman)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Airline Wheelchair Practices
- Message-ID: <24472@handicap.news>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 13:52:46 GMT
- Sender: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com
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- X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
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- Index Number: 24472
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- [This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]
-
- > Acouple of years ago I flew to Hawaii on American. I flew in first class
- > so
- > transferring to the seat wasn't that big of a deal. The flight there was
- > pretty eneventful but on the way home to Chicago, they lost my
- > wheelchair!
- > I'm sitting there waiting in that crappy chair they put you in to
- > get you
- > off the plane because the aisles aren't wide enough for a wheelchair,
- > when
- > someone comes up to me and says, "Your wheelchair went to Atlanta." They
- > didn't even apologize. When I asked them if I could take home an airport
- > chair, they said no. I could have made a bigger stink about it I guess
- > but
- > that was just the last thing that happened on a whole vacation of bad
- > things.
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- Yea, I went to Hawaii on Delta and i had a plane switch in Denver
- to Dallas, my chair made the flight..i didn't and they didn't have
- a chair to use! That's nothing, I went to Germany on Luftansa and
- they 'tried' to send my chair to BOMBAY, INDIA! INDIA!, they kept
- saying "we'll get you another one", my reply was "22 thousand
- deutch mark you can" so they stoped the plane and got my chair.
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