12/19/2025
It's almost as if ambulatory wheelchair users exist and certain situations and places make it difficult to move your body around for long periods of time.
Signed, someone who brings their cane to the airport and sometimes has to use a chair in the airport, but you'll see me go to the bathroom if I have to after you drop me off at my gate and walk away with the chair.
When you're done traveling and all you have left is baggage claim, it's much easier to travel with your own body when you know you can take your time walking, bending, getting up and down, etc.
There is so much nuance and so much that goes into why someone will need a chair and I wish people would take the time to learn instead of saying silly things.
The latest travel scourge: Miracle flights full of passengers touched by "Jetway Jesus."
Many able-bodied passengers are requesting wheelchairs at airports for “the VIP experience”—an es**rt down the jetway that lets them skip the lines and gives them first crack at overhead space.
Once they realize at the end of the flight that they have to wait for assistance to disembark, the healing begins: They stand up without assistance and bound off toward the baggage claim.
“It makes an already hectic experience of flying even slower,” said Carlos Gomez, whose recent flight was delayed when 25 wheelchair passengers were holding up boarding. Gomez said he sees more wheelchair fraud each time he travels.
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