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2. Assistance for airline passengers with disabilities - Wikipedia

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   Aisle Chair used for moving persons with reduced mobility aboard aircraft. There are no worldwide uniform standards regulating the provision of assistance for airline passengers with disabilities. American regulations place the responsibility on the airlines, the European Union's rules make the airport responsible for providing the assistance ...

3. Feds are moving to improve airline travel for people with ...

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   It also outlines steps airlines must take if they damage or misplace a passenger's wheelchair — all in an effort to make the skies friendlier for the roughly 5.5 million Americans use a wheelchair.

4. Human-powered transport - Wikipedia

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   Human-powered transport is the transport of person(s) and/or goods using human muscle power.Unlike animal-powered transport, human-powered transport has existed since time immemorial in the form of walking, running and swimming, as well as small vehicles such as litters, rickshaws, wheelchairs and wheelbarrows.

5. Paratransit - Wikipedia

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   One is picking up a person who uses a wheelchair, while another is discharging another person using a mobility scooter. Paratransit (the term used in North America ) or intermediate public transport (also known by other names such as community transport ( UK )), is a type of transportation service that supplements fixed-route mass transit by ...

6. Passengers are pretending to be disabled to get fast-tracked ...

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   “There are people using wheelchair assistance who don’t need it at all.” Biffle said ahead of one Frontier flight, he saw 20 passengers board the aircraft with a wheelchair, while only three ...

7. 'I just don't want to travel': Wheelchair user discouraged by ...

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   Kim Harrison was traveling to Washington, D.C. to advocate for improvements to mobility. Her wheelchair was damaged by Southwest Airlines on the way. 'I just don't want to travel': Wheelchair user ...

8. Amigo Mobility - Wikipedia

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   Amigo Mobility's founder, Al Thieme, developed their first personal mobility device - the Amigo scooter - in his garage in 1968 to assist a family member who had begun losing their mobility due to multiple sclerosis. [1] [2] [3] He named the device Amigo, the friendly wheelchair, in reference to amigo, a Portuguese and Spanish word for friend. [1]

9. Traveling with a wheelchair is 'different for every single ...

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   Shayn Pulley said their wheelchair was irreparably cracked on Feb. 22 while traveling from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Philadelphia. But Pulley, who uses they/them pronouns, said they're lucky it ...