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[Izziwhizzi]

Same story from Easy Jet

This time the steward makes the para passenger read out loud their rules

"As I arrived at the easyJet check-in desk, I was handed a laminated safety card and asked ‘are you ok with that?’
"The card said: 'Are you able to make your way to an emergency exit unaided?'
"I said yes and didn’t think much of it, but then I was asked the same question a further two times before I boarded.

"Once on the plane the purser said: ‘can you walk to the emergency exit?’
"I explained I am paralysed from the chest down and even though I am quite active, I cannot walk."

With this Mr Sabry was escorted off the plane and made to wait in the walkway while all other passengers boarded.
He said: "I asked to see the captain and explained I had travelled with them hundreds of times before but the purser still refused to let me board or see the captain.

"As the other passengers were boarding he handed me the laminated card and asked me to read it aloud - it was extremely degrading."

http://www.cambridge...ed-13012012.htm

This time I chose Cambridge News coverage and the comments aren't as wacky as the Daily Mails the other day with a similar EasyJet story.

[edlee]

Here, in the US,, we have fewer of these problems,,, but they happen,, and usually unexpectedly. I will restate something told to me before I took my post SCI flight. That is to find the pertinent sections of the ADA laws,, print them out,, and always carry a copy of them in your carry on bag.

There is nothing like the feeling you get when you can show some pompous, mean spirited ass,, what the rules REALLY are.

Though it is unlikely to happen,, I feel that a couple of dismissals are in order. Including that of the pilot,,, he should know better.
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Edited by edlee, 19 January 2012 - 09:02 PM.