Disabled man forced to crawl up stairs to aircraft
 

Maybe Vanilla Air staff took a course in customer relations from a certain Irish loco?

Read about it and can't believe it.
Disgusting and inacceptable.

Or perhaps a certain Chicago-based legacy carrier?

Disgusting, indeed. Is there no dignity in flying for anyone anymore? :*

Just speechless.

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

Well, Vanilla are finding themselves educated by Social Media. Other carriers - and companies - might start to learn.

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.

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.

Now a similar story in the UK (not airline so apologies for drift to S.o.S.)

'Humiliating' benefits assessments must end after disabled woman forced to ?crawl? up DWP stairs, says Scope | The Independent

Nothing like factual and unemotive reporting.

This statement has so many contradictions that it destroys the impact of the story.

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.