Frank Gardner, a conflict 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’. When 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 stated they had been very apologetic for his inconvenience and it was the airline that ought to be pulled up. “In equity to the cabin crew, they had been as useful and apologetic as they could possibly be. Not their fault, it’s the airline. Received’t be flying LOT once more till they be a part of the twenty first century,” Gardner wrote. He additionally mentioned the inhumane incident on BBC Breakfast Tuesday.
On the program, he stated it was outrageous that there was no onboard aisle chair on LOT. He stated when he requested how was he presupposed to go to the washroom, the crew stated they’d assist him. “Nicely, probably not, as a result of if any individual drags you to the toilet it’s too troublesome. I needed to crawl on my bottom alongside the ground — which wasn’t significantly clear — of the plane,” he stated.
“The cabin crew had been very embarrassed and so they had been as useful as they may — there was a very nice steward there who was incredible. He was in a position to 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 scale of a pram, if not smaller, and so they match into an overhead locker or into a cabinet,” Gardner stated.
