Originally Posted by
justapax
How do people in wheelchairs get on a plane if there are steps? Do they get loaded like cargo?
The only time I have encountered stairs in recent years was a budget price domestic flight in Australia (Virgin MEL-BNE), where BOTH the stairs to the rear left entry AND the airbridge to the usual front left entry were used. Anyone with mobility issues was instructed to use the airbridge, most of the rest of us shuffled down stairs out of the departure lounge onto the tarmac and up the stairs into the aircraft. I presume it was done to speed up turnaround.