Mor:
Your point 1 is bang on.
There are as many dubious claimants when travelling to disability, or injury, as there are dodgy asylum seekers.
The trick is how to weed them out with out discriminating against the genuine people who deserve equality.
As an aside , Last season at man(usual job). i had to wait 40 mins on the aircraft with my disabled pax for a an ambilift. we had a stand change to a remote and the pax could not get down the stairs.servisair were incredulous that my assist couldnt be rolled down the steps. All uk airports are geared to airbridge and are put to shame by the efficeient service at summer dest airports with their ambi lifts.
I have to turn my head away in shame when i see at ryr(part time job) the pax being manhandled into stairclimbers and "unloaded" into the cabin.
The airport should have ambi lifts or give everyone a jetty.
Oh and when are we as crew going to stamp out the offensive use of terms like "one wheely runner" or " one runner , one lifter" from our rt to handlers.
its a feckin disgrace and ryr is the tip of the iceberg