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ACCESSIBLE AIR TRAVEL

Since travel restarted postpandemic, one theme has emerged amid the overall chaos: travellers with disabilities being let down by airports and airlines. From special assistance passengers left on planes for upwards of an hour at the end of a flight to wheelchairs damaged in transit, there’s been headline after headline in the past 18 months.

Now, it seems, things have reached crisis point. After her wheelchair was broken on a

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