"Australia's largest-ever overseas team flew into Sydney yesterday morning, the kit bag full with 79 medals, including 23 gold [from the Paralympic Games]."
They flew Qantas:
Paralympian Christine Wolf's return home yesterday was soured when staff on her flight from Sydney refused to allow the gold medallist to take her prosthetic legs as carry-on luggage.
Australian coach Iryna Dvoskina, who travelled back to Canberra with Ms Wolf yesterday, said she would make a formal complaint.''[The prosthetics] are just so sensitive, we never check it into luggage, we take it on the plane all the time and now, on our last flight after two months away and we are just very happy to be home, it was just so unhelpful and unfriendly,'' Ms Dvoskina said.
''I can't believe that it would happen.
Writing about this topic daily, lecturing about it globally, I can't pretend to be as incredulous at this abuse as Coach Dvoskina. With sympathy to Christine Wolf the bright side of the story is that her celebrity status made newsworthy the sort of back alley bully mentality that travelers with disabilities endure from even the top brands in the industry.
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Posted by rollingrains at September 25, 2008 08:41 PM