Air Canada acting like dicks, shocked, shocked I tells ya. Story out of Toronto, Ontario:
A Toronto man is accusing Air Canada of discrimination after the airline told him he can't take the flight he has booked to Cleveland next month because his wheelchair is too tall to fit on the plane.
Tim Rose has cerebral palsy. He works as a disability consultant, and often has to travel for business. But when he was following up on the flight with Air Canada on Sunday, Rose says airline staff told him he wouldn't be able to bring his motorized wheelchair.
Rose says his wheelchair is a standard size, standing just under a metre, but the airline says the door to the cargo hold on the aircraft that is scheduled to make the Cleveland flight is about 13 centimetres shorter.
"Essentially what they're saying is that my wheelchair, which is a part of my body, it's a part of my dignity, it's a part of my independence, is a bag ... I am not an oversized bag." Said Rose.
The Canadian Transportation Agency says that transportation service providers must "ensure that persons with disabilities have equal access to federal transportation services" and accommodate people with disabilities up to the point of "undue hardship." Cont.
Story from CBC News/CP
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