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Flight ban on disabled tourist investigated

Passengers check in for flights at Chiang Mai Airport. (Bangkok Post File Photo)

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken up a four-year-old case in which an airline refused boarding to an Israeli tourist using an electric wheelchair.

NHRC commissioner Wasan Paileeklee said the tourist had booked a flight from Chiang Mai to Suvarnabhumi airport on March 4, 2019, and had sent information regarding his wheelchair battery 48 hours before the flight.

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