{"id":297840,"date":"2019-10-24T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297840"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:23:44","slug":"150m-walk-at-the-airport-for-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/150m-walk-at-the-airport-for-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"150m walk at the airport for wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-year-old with reduced mobility had to walk for around 150m, with the help of a walking stick, before she was allotted a wheelchair at the Calcutta airport on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Deepanjali Ghosh, a resident of Behala, had a ticket for an AirAsia flight to Bangalore on Monday. Ghosh said she had booked a wheelchair a few days ago, following it up with a call to the airline on Sunday and another on her way to the airport. On both occasion, she had requested that a wheelchair and a pusher be kept ready as she could not walk or stand for too long. <\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old arrived at the airport in a cab and looked around for a wheelchair while the driver of the cab offloaded her luggage from the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-year-old with reduced mobility had to walk for around 150m, with the help of a walking stick, before she was allotted a wheelchair at the Calcutta airport on Monday afternoon. Deepanjali Ghosh, a resident of Behala, had a ticket for an AirAsia flight to Bangalore on Monday. Ghosh said she had booked a wheelchair a few days ago, following it up with a call to the airline on Sunday and another on her way to the airport. On both occasion, she had requested that a wheelchair and a pusher be kept ready as she could not walk or stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}