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Disabled passengers and too much make-up blamed for airport delays and cancellations!

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Sassanach512 Thu 28-Jul-22 12:25:43

Jeremy Vine showed an idiot pretending to be disabled in a wheelchair on his show the other day. This guy was telling everyone how to beat the queues in airports and putting it online thinking he was being hilarious, what a plank angry

GagaJo Thu 28-Jul-22 12:14:53

Do any of us know anyone who is able bodied, pretending to be disabled? Of course not .

Baggs Thu 28-Jul-22 11:48:44

I read the article in the link. I didn't see anything I thought was criticism of actually disabled people. The points he made seem valid to me.

Which does not excuse those times when disabled people have not got the help they needed (and arranged in advance) in airports.

icanhandthemback Thu 28-Jul-22 11:42:38

He doesn't mention the many disabled passengers who don't rely on the airports getting them to their planes. In all our time of flying, I think we've asked for help once and that was on a connecting flight where we would have had to run through the airport to get the flight. On any other occasion, we leave plenty of time and family assist. The same with my daughter and my mother.
These sort of comments about the disabled make my blood boil.

GagaJo Thu 28-Jul-22 11:37:54

Evening Standard article highlights that John Holland-Kaye, Heathrow CEO has partially blamed 'travellers pretending to be disabled' for delays at Heathrow.

Passengers taking too many liquids on holiday, airlines not hiring enough staff and travellers pretending to be disabled are to blamed for the chaos plaguing Heathrow, the airport’s chief executive claimed on Tuesday.

Would that be wheelchair using British journalist Frank Gardner, stuck on a plane at Heathrow for the fifth time? Suzanne Croft, who has rare and progressive muscular dystrophy, who had to be carried off a plane at Heathrow by her husband? 20 wheelchair passengers left waiting in a non-air conditioned part of terminal 3? Or Gerardo Silano, who died after waiting to be taken off a plane (admittedly at Gatwick, rather than Heathrow) and trying to disembark himself.

uk.yahoo.com/news/heathrow-boss-blames-passengers-too-084906292.html