This story cannot be surpassed in terms of tastelessness. When a BBC war correspondent had to go to the toilet on a Polish plane, he was forced to crawl on the floor to get to the cabin. Because: No wheelchairs are allowed on board.
It is a humiliating photo that emerges from an X-post by BBC journalist Frank Gardner. As the war reporter reports, he could apparently only reach the aircraft toilet by crawling to the toilet cabin on the ground.
The airline’s policy prohibits wheelchairs on board
The way Gardner describes the situation in his Monday post is chilling: “Wow! The year is 2024 and I just had to crawl across the floor of the Polish airline LOT to go to the toilet on a return flight from Warsaw…
The respected journalist was shot by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Saudi Arabia 20 years ago and has since been paralyzed, requiring the use of a wheelchair.
“Simply discriminatory”
Accordingly, the journalist was on the flight to London when the flight crew refused to let him take his wheelchair as regulations did not allow it. This is not only discrimination in the highest form, but also extremely humiliating for people with disabilities. “If you’re disabled and can’t walk, that’s just discriminatory,” Gardner says.
The X-Post above shows his legs resting on the aisle of the machine. However, he does not blame the flight crew because “it depends on the regulations of airlines” who do not consider it necessary to have wheelchairs on board. He further criticized that “after all, it wouldn’t be difficult to carry a wheelchair on board.”
Afterwards, Gardner also spoke about the wheelchair incident on the TV program ‘BBC Breakfast’. In another X post he emphasized: “To be fair, the cabin crew were as helpful and apologetic as they could be. It’s not their fault, it’s the airline. “I will no longer fly LOT until they enter the 21st century,” the reporter said.
Source: Krone
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