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- Tue, 00:02: I think I'm more likely to *have* a wheelchair in an airport if I get the airline to lend me one, because my own would be baggage, yesno?
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- Tue, 18:56: RT @ms_peaceweaver: "A domestic-related incident". My least favourite phrase, especially when describing murders. https://t.co/X81ORdTR9I
- Tue, 18:56: RT @ms_peaceweaver: @sericana "it's ok, move along now, nothing to see, he just got very upset and killed his family"
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- Tue, 20:17: RT @I_am_Del_Rio: @MichaelRosenYes despite the new yr6 curriculum promoting poetry-it now has zero weighting in the SATS writing test.
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Date: 2016-02-02 11:50 pm (UTC)While some airlines/airports will put pressure on you to hand over your wheelchair and transfer into one of their shitty chairs upon checking in, there is no requirement for you to do so. Indeed, some of the shitty chairs at airports (most noticeably Heathrow) are extremely uncomfortable to use.
As a wheelchair user, you will be the first onto the plane and the last off the plane. Depending on how you feel and how squirrely the girls get whilst waiting, you might want to have Rob take some of them off to start fetching your other luggage. At some airports, to save time, they will take you off the plane in one of their shitty wheelchairs and then have you wait for your own to arrive.
I recommend carrying a bicycle pump, spare inner tube, and any necessary tools in your checked-in luggage, just in case the airline manage to break your wheelchair in transit. So far this has only happened to me with Air France, but they managed to break it on both flights.
Air Canada are by far the best airline to fly with as a wheelchair user, but this is probably not helpful if you're only going from one European city to another :)
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Date: 2016-02-03 03:33 pm (UTC)