The Transportation Department has announced several measures, but advocates say progress is too slow.
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This is disgraceful and very discrimitary for a wheelchair is an intergrel part of a person, as it is realy the equivalent of the legs of a non-wheelcair user and no one would expect a person to become adrift of their legs.
But profit is deemed more important than the human rights of persons who use wheelchairs.
In planes there should be either specific places where people in wheelchairs could continue to sit in their wheelchairs as there are in all other forms of transport, or seats should be able to be removed in order that a wheelchair could be placed instead. Much of this would require isles on planes to be much wider, thereby reducing the seating capacity, hence a loss of revenue and profits.
Also the rights to damages and compensation should be more available and should be paid in days of a claim being made, if not immediately.
Un til then persons in wheelchairs are not being granted the same rights as other passengers which should be illegal.
The airlines are effectively guilty of a lack of Duty of Care.
Source: How flying could be improved for passengers who use wheelchairs – The Washington Post
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