COULD BE COMING SOONER THAN YOU THINK
The headline contains the good/hopeful news.
But first
the bad.
For more
than half a century, my wife and all others who use a wheelchair for mobility, have
to check their legs at the door and worry during an entire flight.
The very real
possibility is an essential power or manual wheelchair will be broken beyond
repair, lost or damaged so much that the trip is ruined.
Every time I
get an online form thanking me for using an air carrier, I move to the “other”
comments and submit something like this:
Please build
a plane that allows wheelchair users to board in their power wheelchairs.
My wife is a
wheelchair user.
She cannot
fly with a power chair -- because the airlines are very well known (tragically)
for badly damaging, even losing wheelchairs.
Flying
without your wheelchair is like flying without your legs attached.
Technology
exists to allow a person to roll aboard and be safely secured for flying.
Forcing
people to stow their means of mobility out of sight and out of use is:
humiliating, terrifying -- something that strips dignity and perpetuates
discrimination.
Please
address this.
If you do
not, anything American Airlines states about commitment to equity, inclusion
and diversity -- rings 100 percent hollow.
Now the somewhat
good news, light at the end of the tunnel story:
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