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    One mum's fight to get wheelchairs on planes

    I can't post video directly but HERE

    This is something I heavily support. As a wheelchair user I have flown three times and each was horrendous uncomfortable and humiliating. Because of this flying is just not a feesible option for me especially on destinations over 2hrs which unfortunately limits me travelling to places I would love to visit. Changes such as this would open the world up for wheelchair users like myself

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    Wait, I thought most airlines did this? I mean, the ones I've flown with does.
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    Why not just get out of the wheelchair and have someone seat you in a normal seat and then get back into the wheelchair when you're at the destination?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freighter View Post
    Why not just get out of the wheelchair and have someone seat you in a normal seat and then get back into the wheelchair when you're at the destination?
    The video addressed this in like the first 30 seconds

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gehco View Post
    Wait, I thought most airlines did this? I mean, the ones I've flown with does.
    None I have flown on, perhaps the big ones do

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    It is shitty for people in wheelchairs, I worked for WestJet and we were pretty good about it, but ya it is a nightmare regardless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adam86shadow View Post
    I can't post video directly but HERE

    This is something I heavily support. As a wheelchair user I have flown three times and each was horrendous uncomfortable and humiliating. Because of this flying is just not a feesible option for me especially on destinations over 2hrs which unfortunately limits me travelling to places I would love to visit. Changes such as this would open the world up for wheelchair users like myself
    Sounds pretty reasonable.

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    The system will never ever fit in a standard economy class seat row which pretty much makes the whole idea pointless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adam86shadow View Post
    None I have flown on, perhaps the big ones do
    Lufthansa, SAS, KLM, AirBrussles does it I know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Puri View Post
    The system will never ever fit in a standard economy class seat row which pretty much makes the whole idea pointless.
    Airlines don't make much on economy as is, about 2$ per seat after everything is priced out.
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    I doubt they would ever do something like this since if something fucked up on the wheelchair and it came loose and injured a few passengers they would be sued for millions. Much cheaper for them to just replace someones wheelchair that the crew mishandled and broke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frogger237 View Post
    I doubt they would ever do something like this since if something fucked up on the wheelchair and it came loose and injured a few passengers they would be sued for millions. Much cheaper for them to just replace someones wheelchair that the crew mishandled and broke.
    But they do this one buses and trains

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    Planes are not like buses, you can undergo serious turbulence in a plane and wheel chairs aren't up to standards is my guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hubcap View Post
    Planes are not like buses, you can undergo serious turbulence in a plane and wheel chairs aren't up to standards is my guess.
    A wheelchair securely clamped down is more secure than the overhead luggage

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    There's a number of issues from what I can tell. The first is that the wheelchair takes up more space than a standard seat. The second is that not all wheel chairs can be anchored at the same points. The third is that the number of people flying who need a wheel chair is somewhat low. I'm pretty sure the total wheelchair population in the US amounts to about 1% of the population. We have far more people who need more space in their standard seat and nobody addresses those issues.
    Why can't the airlines just have special wheelchairs then that you borrow at the airport and return before you leave at your destination airport that all have a certain size? That way the airplanes only have to adjust to one type of wheelchair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adam86shadow View Post
    I can't post video directly but HERE

    This is something I heavily support. As a wheelchair user I have flown three times and each was horrendous uncomfortable and humiliating. Because of this flying is just not a feesible option for me especially on destinations over 2hrs which unfortunately limits me travelling to places I would love to visit. Changes such as this would open the world up for wheelchair users like myself
    Obviously it will help but for even most able bodied people, flying is horrendous and uncomfortable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spl4sh3r View Post
    Why can't the airlines just have special wheelchairs then that you borrow at the airport and return before you leave at your destination airport that all have a certain size? That way the airplanes only have to adjust to one type of wheelchair.
    This seems to be a reasonable way to go about it either a special airplane wheelchair or just have ones you can purchase that are rated for air travel with a set of standard tie down connectors. I think the biggest reason this won't happen is they keep trying to smash more and more people into less and less space there just is not room for it.

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    Supply and demand. I really don't care. Unless you fly too often just endure it. If you fly too often, consider moving closer to the place you are flying often to.
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    I used to work as a flight attendent, and the problem came basically with electric wheelchairs.
    Apparently, most of them have a lithium or another kind of batteries that cannot be in cabin during a flight (same happens with a lot of other devices), so (in our company) a regular wheelchair could be on cabin during the flight, but the ones with lithium batteries had to either go to cargo or be removed of the batteries before entering.
    As far as I remember, in that case they gave you an airport wheelchair to move on cabin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adam86shadow View Post
    A wheelchair securely clamped down is more secure than the overhead luggage
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    Wheelchairs were a nightmare to deal with when I worked for ExpressJet (which is owned by United Airlines, which is about the worst airline in the US.) I always felt bad for the guy in the chair because getting it onto a cramped ERJ145 was never fun for anyone.

    IIRC, most the larger airplanes I worked on had a wheelchair stowed away somewhere. I know there was one somewhere on the E170-175s that Republic would send us sometimes.
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