The UK's discount airlines seems to have undervalued its clientelle, again.
The company split up a partly of blind passengers on their way from the UK to Italy "because the flight had more than its "quota" of disabled people". Inclusion Daily Express reports:
Last year, a British court found Ryanair guilty of discriminating against passenger Bob Ross because it charged him a £18 fee (about $28 US) each way to provide him a wheelchair at the same airport. In January, the court ordered
Ryanair to pay Ross £1,336 ($2,435 US).The Royal National Institute for the Blind said it had received a number of
complaints against the discount airline from people with disabilities in the
past two years, but no complaints about other airlines."Disabled people don't need Ryanair's sympathy -- rather a commitment to fly
them where they want to go. This attitude is outdated."
Further Reading
Ryanair under fire over blind passengers
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=66009&pt=n
Blind group told to leave plane
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4337162.stm