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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Aisha Rimi

‘Humiliated’: Emirates passenger forced to choose between taking medical ventilator or luggage on flight

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Emirates airline has apologised to a disabled passenger after she had to abandon her luggage so she could carry life-saving oxygen equipment on a flight to Pakistan.

Amna Raheel, who has muscular dystrophy, was left feeling “humiliated” when she was told she would have to pay extra to take her oxygen concentrator on board a flight from Dubai to Karachi on 9 August.

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