{"id":529702,"date":"2022-10-14T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529702"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:35:09","slug":"airline-staff-grab-wheelchair-from-passenger-flying-with-rival-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airline-staff-grab-wheelchair-from-passenger-flying-with-rival-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline staff grab wheelchair from passenger flying with rival carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: An unpleasant scene unfolded at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru around 4am Wednesday when the ground staff of IndiGo allegedly forced a 57-year-old disabled passenger out of a wheelchair owned by the airline because he was flying rival carrier Go First to Kolkata with his wife and son to attend the family patriarch&#8217;s funeral. IT professional Rajiv Dey, 31, his father Gopal Dey and mother Bharati were scheduled to take the Go First flight G8 790. Gopal is paralysed following a road accident five years ago and has limited mobility in his left leg.<\/p>\n<p>His wife and son had to walk him past security checks and other procedures, and the delay resulted in Rajiv missing the flight. The international airport doesn&#8217;t offer wheelchairs and passengers are forced to rely on their airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No amount of shouting or pleading or offering to pay the fee helped. My mother and I were forced to hold my dad and walk him past security and all the way to the boarding gate,&#8221; said Rajiv, whose attempts to locate another wheelchair went in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: An unpleasant scene unfolded at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru around 4am Wednesday when the ground staff of IndiGo allegedly forced a 57-year-old disabled passenger out of a wheelchair owned by the airline because he was flying rival carrier Go First to Kolkata with his wife and son to attend the family patriarch&#8217;s funeral. IT professional Rajiv Dey, 31, his father Gopal Dey and mother Bharati were scheduled to take the Go First flight G8 790. Gopal is paralysed following a road accident five years ago and has limited mobility in his left leg. His wife and son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529702","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}