A journalist from BBC was made to crawl to the toilet on a flight after the airline refused to provide a wheelchair for him as it was against their policy.
Frank Gardener, BBC’s security correspondent took to X to say that he was not provided a wheelchair to move around on a flight from Poland to London.
“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”. If you’re disabled and you can’t walk this is just discriminatory,”he wrote, sharing an photo of him sitting on the plane’s floor.
Gardener has been paralysed for over 20 years after he was shot by al-Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia while he was on an assignment.
