Chennai: Air travel in India is anything but the hassle-free mode that centrally framed guidelines promise. That is what three differently abled persons, including a woman, learnt the hard way after they underwent a harrowing time at the airports in Chennai and Hyderabad.
Being forced into unfamiliar wheelchairs rather than the customised ones they use, being asked to cough up Rs. 16,000 so that the airliner could arrange an ambulift to get them on to the aircraft and being reduced to a spectacle when they were lifted, wheelchair and all, to the plane soured the flying experience of these persons with disability.
If Deepak, who relies on crutches, was forced to climb up a narrow flight of steps of a fold-in ladder used for smaller aircraft, Meenakshi and Rajiv were literally lifted with the wheelchairs into a Jet Airways carrier at Hyderabad.
07/10/13 The Hindu
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Being forced into unfamiliar wheelchairs rather than the customised ones they use, being asked to cough up Rs. 16,000 so that the airliner could arrange an ambulift to get them on to the aircraft and being reduced to a spectacle when they were lifted, wheelchair and all, to the plane soured the flying experience of these persons with disability.
If Deepak, who relies on crutches, was forced to climb up a narrow flight of steps of a fold-in ladder used for smaller aircraft, Meenakshi and Rajiv were literally lifted with the wheelchairs into a Jet Airways carrier at Hyderabad.
07/10/13 The Hindu
