'In fairness to the cabin crew, they were as helpful and apologetic as they could be. Not their fault, it's the airline.'
63-year-old Frank Gardner , a BBC journalist and war correspondent who was paralyzed after being shot by al Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia 20 years ago, was asked to crawl to the bathroom due to an airline's policy.
posting an image of his legs while on board an LOT Polish Airlines flight to London. "Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve just had to crawl along the floor of this LOT Polish airline to get to the toilet during a flight back from Warsaw as 'we don’t have onboard wheelchairs. It’s airline policy'. If you’re disabled and you can’t walk this is just discriminatory," Gardner wrote."In fairness to the cabin crew, they were as helpful and apologetic as they could be. Not their fault, it's the airline. Won't be flying LOT again until they join the 21st century," Gardner wrote in a reply to the post on the same day itGardner also discussed the incident on "BBC Breakfast" on Tuesday, saying "It is outrageous in terms of air travel that LOT, the Polish airline I traveled on from Warsaw last night back to London, had no onboard aisle chair." “I said, ‘Well, how do you expect me to go to the loo?’ ‘Well, we can help you,'" Gardner recalled, when speaking on "BBC Breakfast," per. “Well, not really, because if somebody drags you to the loo it’s too difficult. I had to crawl on my backside along the floor — which wasn’t particularly clean — of the aircraft.” When speaking on the show, Gardner said the crew aboard the LOT flight "were very embarrassed and were as helpful as they could, there was a really nice steward there who was fantastic. He was able to take my legs," per the publication. “But the point is, guys, it’s not difficult to have an onboard aisle chair. These things fold up to the size of a pram, if not smaller, and they fit into an overhead locker or into a cupboard,” Gardner said on "BBC Breakfast,"
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