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Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair (www.theguardian.com)
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Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August

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[-] SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

"Hodgins says he was offered a C$2,000 flight voucher by the airline, but said compensation would not “fix the problem” of how the airline failed its disabled passengers."

Given how much this seems to be happening I'd be for fining any airline that does this 100k. Half for the victims and half for disability advocacy groups.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Not 100k. The total ticket price of every person on that plane. Make it unprofitable to be inhuman bastards.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

After operation expenses I feel like that's about $100k profit per trip

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's easier to just guarantee it's a loss after such a trip by taking the income they generated for that trip and removing it.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're right and it would avoid airlines raising rates to compensate

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