You couldn’t make this up!
A gold medal winning Australian paralympian resorts to crawling through Brisbane airport instead of being forced to use the airlines less than ideal method of getting hime to the boarding gate.
I would sincerely hope this could never happen in the UK or Europe, but I’m not so sure. We have European legislation in the form of EC1107 to stop people with disabilities being treated like a burden when making their way through airports, onto the plane and the reverse at their destination.
But we already know of problems experienced by UK travellers.
The travel and leisure industry has made great advances in making itslef a more ‘disabled friendly’ sector but there is still so much more to do.
Take a look at the full story in the Good Access Guide News section…