Frank Gardner, a battle correspondent for the BBC, was requested to crawl to the washroom on a LOT Polish Airways flight because the airline didn’t have any wheelchair. Posting the picture of his legs as he crawled to the lavatory, he wrote, “Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve simply needed to crawl alongside the ground of this LOT Polish airline to get to the bathroom throughout a flight again from Warsaw as ‘we don’t have onboard wheelchairs.It’s airline coverage’. In case you’re disabled and you’ll’t stroll that is simply discriminatory.”
63-year-old Gardner was shot and paralyzed by al Qaeda gunman in Saudi Arabia 20 years in the past.
Gardner protected the cabin crew and mentioned they had been very apologetic for his inconvenience and it was the airline that must be pulled up. “In equity to the cabin crew, they had been as useful and apologetic as they may very well be. Not their fault, it’s the airline. Gained’t be flying LOT once more till they be part of the twenty first century,” Gardner wrote. He additionally mentioned the inhumane incident on BBC Breakfast Tuesday.
On the program, he mentioned it was outrageous that there was no onboard aisle chair on LOT. He mentioned when he requested how was he purported to go to the washroom, the crew mentioned they might assist him. “Properly, not likely, as a result of if any individual drags you to the john it’s too troublesome. I needed to crawl on my bottom alongside the ground — which wasn’t notably clear — of the plane,” he mentioned.
“The cabin crew had been very embarrassed they usually had been as useful as they might — there was a very nice steward there who was implausible. He was capable of take my legs.
“However the level is, guys, it’s not troublesome to have an onboard aisle chair. These items fold as much as the dimensions of a pram, if not smaller, they usually match into an overhead locker or into a cabinet,” Gardner mentioned.