Originally Posted by
Kevin AA
People who need wheelchair assistance should not be booking a short connection.
Let's face facts... people abuse the pre-boarding system to get a better seat. They need to be corrected.
As soon as passengers get to write airline schedules we can go with your plan. Sometimes that's the only connection. And as soon as airline employees can read minds and know who is faking it we can again go with your plan. In the meantime the law protects those who truly do need to preboard and WN's system fosters abuse. Either get WN to go to assigned seating or quit whining about the abusers. Nowhere in this is it the fault of those who truly need to preboard so stop trying to punish and denigrate them.
Originally Posted by
BrlDsguise
Getting to the gate also requires going through security. My wife who is disabled has less difficulty walking than she does standing so uses wheelchair assistance to the gate but not exiting the airport.
Exactly. There are myriad reasons why someone legitimately needs to preboard and use a wheelchair but may not need one just to get off the plane. The entire boarding experience is not the same as the experience getting off the plane, which some people fail to see.