Chennai: Imagine being lifted in a chair all the way up to an aircraft from the ground, on the narrow staircase that leads up to most low cost carriers’ planes. Passengers feel a deep sense of discomfort and embarrassment and it’s quite tough on those carrying the chair. However, this is an experience disabled passengers have to face quite often.
While IndiGo has recently introduced stair lifts, most private carriers operate without such a facility, causing a great deal of agony to passengers.
“It is extremely scary every time we are carried to the aircraft when there is no aerobridge or ambulift. The problem is that only one or two airlines get the ambulift; for the others, we have to hire it at a high cost,” Smitha Sadasivan of Disability Rights Alliance (DRA) says. It costs anywhere between Rs. 3,000-5,000 to hire an ambulift.
24/06/14 Sunitha Sekar and R. Srikanth/The Hindu
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While IndiGo has recently introduced stair lifts, most private carriers operate without such a facility, causing a great deal of agony to passengers.
“It is extremely scary every time we are carried to the aircraft when there is no aerobridge or ambulift. The problem is that only one or two airlines get the ambulift; for the others, we have to hire it at a high cost,” Smitha Sadasivan of Disability Rights Alliance (DRA) says. It costs anywhere between Rs. 3,000-5,000 to hire an ambulift.
24/06/14 Sunitha Sekar and R. Srikanth/The Hindu
