A 63-year-old disabled BBC journalist was forced to crawl to the bathroom because his airline prevented him from using his wheelchair on board.
Frank Gardner, who had been shot and paralyzed by al-Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia in 2004 while reporting, shared his experience on X and vowed to never fly with LOT Polish Airlines again.
Posting a photo of his legs on the floor, he wrote, “Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve just had to crawl along the floor of this LOT Polish airline to get to the toilet during a flight back from Warsaw as ‘we don’t have onboard wheelchairs. It’s airline policy.’
