The fact that the airline doesn’t give wheelchairs cargo priority on the flight is insane. If the flight is genuinely full of passenger luggage I understand to an extent. But I suspect it’s not,I don’t know about Air Canada but I know a lot of airlines sell cargo space to air freight carriers.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Seven years after Tim Rose was denied access to an Air Canada flight because of the size of his power wheelchair, the Canadian Transportation Agency ruled the country’s largest airline needs to do more to accommodate passengers with mobility devices.

During the hearing, Air Canada argued that Rose was the only person who had been refused transport because a plane travelling across the border couldn’t fit their wheelchair.

As a result of the ruling, the airline will have to find passengers with wheelchairs that don’t fit on select airplanes a similar flight in its own network or with another carrier that can accommodate.

“This includes evaluating its extremely complex requirements that we substitute aircraft on an ad hoc basis and what effects this would have on other customers and our regular schedule and operations,” Peter Fitzpatrick said via email.

Others in the disability community are glad to see the ruling in Rose’s favour, but say other problems persist when it comes to flying with a wheelchair — including damage when the custom devices are in the cargo hold.

There is one solution to many of the issues mobility device users face when travelling by air, said Maayan Ziv, a disability advocate and founder and CEO of AccessNow, an app that helps people find accessible places.

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