Jennie Berry, a woman from Hartlepool in north east England, shared a video of her experience flying the Albastar from Newcastle to Mallorca. The disabled girl is a blogger and activist and talks about life in a wheelchair between happy moments and the difficulties of facing the architectural barriers that limit her freedom. The incident, which took place on board the small company’s plane, is a complaint about the lack of attention given to the disabled. Jennie Berry said she received no assistance on board and was not given an ad hoc wheelchair to navigate the plane’s narrow central aisle.
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Jennie Berry, the complaint in a video
In the video, the girl can be seen trudging down the hallway to get to the bathroom. Jennie, who is paralyzed from the waist down, also claims that cabin crew told her that disabled passengers “should wear diapers on board” and offered no assistance to reach the lavatory at the front of the plane. “Every flight I have taken has had a special wheelchair on board to get around in. And with one of those chairs they let me on board, but later they told me they didn’t have one to allow me to reach the bathroom,” he said in the video.
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“The flight didn’t start well because they didn’t allow me to sit in the front of the plane even though there were seats available – he added -” Then when I asked if I could go to the toilet, they simply said no , they couldn’t help me and they kept serving drinks. When I reached the toilet, the staff told me that “disabled people should wear diapers on board”. Apparently this is their solution ».