Helen Henderson has done a good article exploring new airline security practices from the perspective of a traveler with a disability.
Long before the sunscreen and the mouthwash and the duty free were banned from the cabin, air travellers who use electric wheelchairs knew only too well what it's like to be buried in pre-flight restrictions.Wheelchairs as air cargo have always meant a maze of red tape — the planning, the booking, the checking, the re-checking, the worry that no matter how careful everyone tries to be, one of your most precious possessions may come to grief at the hands of strangers in the belly of a jumbo jet.
See Wheelchair users struggle to get airborne
Posted by rollingrains at August 31, 2006 08:11 PM