Cactusjack
I won't disect all the comments in this thread
I suggest you do. No one is disputing that a personal wheelchair won’t fit down an aircraft aisle or lifter. The point here is that most airlines allow wheelchair bound pax to use their own wheelchair to at least the gate and in some cases the aircraft door. It is only Jetstar and Tiger that are so bloody minded that they make these pax check their wheelchairs in at check in and use a chair that requires someone else to propel them around for the next hour or two. If you can’t see that to some this is incredibly demeaning then you are incredibly ignorant of paraplegics and there passionate desire for independence. Just like what they use to have and we ably bodied all take for granted.
So some of you don’t like how he made a big deal of it in front of the media and the Prime Minister. Get over it. He used the loudest megaphone he had and by doing so he made Jetstar management sit up and take notice. Do you thing for one minute the policy would have changed if he hadn’t done what he did? Of course not.
ditch handle
Thank you.