What the Hell is This?

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Easy Jet does it again!

A 38-year-old paraplegic woman was ordered off an EasyJet flight last Sunday because she was unaccompanied.

Marie-Patricia Hoarau was able to check in, proceed through departure and finally board the aircraft at a Paris airport before she was told she could not remain on the aircraft.

Ms Hoarau, who lives in Fréjus in south-east France, had made the flight to Paris from Nice without any incident. It was only on the return trip that she was told she could not travel.


Source (see the video):
http://www.france24.com/en/20100327-woman-wheelchair-ejected-easyjet-flight-france-halde

All the more ironic in light of the recent Easy Jet award to Amar Latif and Traveleyes

Related:

http://blog.wheelmap.org/2010/03/frau-im-rollstuhl-von-easyjet-flug-ausgeschlossen/
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