{"id":28503,"date":"2018-12-07T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=28503"},"modified":"2018-12-07T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:00:33","slug":"new-charter-to-improve-disabled-passengers-experience-to-be-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/new-charter-to-improve-disabled-passengers-experience-to-be-implemented\/","title":{"rendered":"New charter to improve disabled passengers experience to be implemented"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new charter might be adopted to improve disabled passengers flying experiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new proposition include the scrap of the \u00a3 2,000 pay-outs limit to all passengers whose wheelchairs were\u00a0damaged during flights and new training for airline staff such as cabin crews and baggage handlers.<\/p>\n

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has in fact recently revealed\u00a0 that\u00a0 more than half of the disabled passengers found travelling through airports difficult.<\/p>\n

See also: Motability boss bonus leads to backlash<\/a><\/p>\n

James Taylor, Head of Policy, Campaigns and Public Affairs for Scope, a disability equality charity, told exclusively to The Voice of London: \u201cIt\u2019s high time air travel is improved for disabled people after years of unacceptable difficulties.”<\/p>\n

Passengers have been complaining on social media for years on the treatment that was reserved by different flying companies to disabled family members, friends or themselves.<\/p>\n

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Frontier Airlines was literally going to let my friend\u2019s disabled father die when his oxygen tank stopped working because of \u201cpolicy\u201d. Oh, then they also lost his wheelchair. @flyfrontier<\/a> wtf?<\/p>\n

— Lindsay (@lmhoying) December 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n