Great one, but why did it take so long for people in that industry to think of the obvious? 
Sadly because the world we live in is increasingly being run by able bodied youngsters who haven't a clue what it is like to be disabled and I suspect they don't care.
We have struggled for over 15 years with disabled relatives and encountered all sorts of CRASS STUPIDITY. Lack of dropped kerbs, ramp access, smooth access, didn't know you were coming, no one told us etc etc.
Regarding airports. One of the best (for disabled passengers) is Malaga. It is exempelry . One of the worst is East Midlands. The assistance is notable by his absence, no thought for the passengers needs and so on.
It isn't all good at malaga though. They recently doubled the size of the airport and able bodied passengers have to walk the lenght of the old terminal and the new terminal to go through security , then walk right back down the same vast distance and then a further similar distance to the actual gate. A pathetic reduction in service for someone like my Dad who can't walk very far because of pain in his feet. Of course the "young person" who designed it would have been a poxy just out of Uni graduate and no doubt got an award for feeding foot passengers through the plethora of overpriced shops. Makes my blood boil. I would make the airport executives "disabled for a week". They would soon make some changes...............
Good luck to this company for there overdue product.
Certainly is about time one was designed. Mind you how much will it cost to buy one and how many would actually buy it on the basis for those that are disabled? Would be nice though if all the BIG airlines were to go and purchase them.
Varche,
I can understand your thinking. However a week wouldn't work, anyone could do it for a week. A year is more like it.
It's like when politicians say in order to understand what it's like to be homeless, they’re going to spend a night (what just the one!
) so they can get an in depth understanding of the situations "these" people have to go through (Never in a rough area that they spend the night though is it).
I constantly get fed up of people saying to me, "I know what it's like to be disabled as I broke my leg skiing last year, so know what it's like to not be able to walk
.
To be honest most of the time I'd like to say oh...f-off you moaning &*&^%$. It's true, you know what it's like to be inconvenienced not being able to drive for a while, or play your favourite sport or whatever. But unlike most, these moaners get to lose their disability and get back to "normal" (no such thing I know
).
Right.... Now if you want to know what it's like to have a disability, you have to put up with the likes of;
Name calling (not always from children who don't know better either).
People who assume if you have a physical disability, that your stupid to.
Service providers/shops/sales people that think they can screw you over as you're an easy target (don't get me started on the BS I've been told from garages in the past, until I tell em, how can it be because.....).
That because your disabled people are always quick and dismissing what you can't do, but never look at what you can do.
Some even think you shouldn't be in sexual relationships or can't manage.
People think you're not safe to drive a car/van/etc or ride a bike/trike (I've done them all and still driving).
That you have no sense of humour.
That you need talking to like you’re a very very young child who doesn't have any sense of good/bad (haven't yet, but the next person that does treat me this way, I'm going to act like one and simply s**t on the floor in front of them
).
The rest of the stereotyping that seems to be common place.
Now... if you've experienced part or all of that, chances are you are disabled and know what's like.
That's why a week wouldn't work, unless I have a big hammer and say to them, "is that Elvis?" when they look round to see....., about right for kneecaps.............CRUNCH!
Sorry folks... rant over with
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