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Old 28th Jun 2017, 17:47
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Disabled man forced to crawl up stairs to aircraft

Japanese airline forces disabled man to crawl aboard - BBC News
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Old 28th Jun 2017, 17:56
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Maybe Vanilla Air staff took a course in customer relations from a certain Irish loco?
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Read about it and can't believe it.
Disgusting and inacceptable.
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Or perhaps a certain Chicago-based legacy carrier?

Disgusting, indeed. Is there no dignity in flying for anyone anymore?
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Just speechless.
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Old 29th Jun 2017, 09:21
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Troublke is a lot of Asian countries are wayyyyy behind in their perception of disabilities and how to behave with the disabled.....................

But it's only a few years since the David Brent fire escape scene in The Office TBH
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Old 29th Jun 2017, 09:51
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Well, Vanilla are finding themselves educated by Social Media. Other carriers - and companies - might start to learn.
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If he didn't bother to request special assistance what's his beef, exactly?
Self inflicted event imo, and no one "forced" him - he volunteered to make the climb by the sound of it.
Not saying the airline exactly covered itself with glory - far from it, but not quite the brutal event suggesed by the headline.
Just like the shrieking "doctor" removal a couple of months back - events severely misreported by sensationalist penmanship.
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Old 29th Jun 2017, 15:15
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Yes, noflynomore, but the social media kids will be the judge. Nowadays, everyone must presume that an uninformed person will post something for the junk press to print.
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Now a similar story in the UK (not airline so apologies for drift to S.o.S.)

Maria Quinn, who is partially sighted and walks with the aid of a wheeled frame, described how she was left feeling “mortified and panicked” after finding there was no step-free access for her consultation at a disability benefits centre.
“There is no ramp or flat entrance to the disability assessment building…that’s right folks! You read it correctly,” Ms Quinn wrote on Facebook
'Humiliating' benefits assessments must end after disabled woman forced to ?crawl? up DWP stairs, says Scope | The Independent
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Nothing like factual and unemotive reporting.

ye olde ultra solid not-concrete-but-possibly-some-sort of-titanium-killer-stairs…you know the ones! Crumbly ends from centuries of feet and furniture and goodness knows what.”
This statement has so many contradictions that it destroys the impact of the story.
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Old 5th Jul 2017, 11:41
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All true Pontius Navigator, as we see in this forum all the time. But the social media has it's own story and generates it's own influence. THAT is what causes as big a problem as the original, not least due to the hyperbole and contradictions. As Trump has found to his delight.
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