Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
Even worse, try to fly with your own electric wheelchair. It can take forever to bring it up. I’ve waited as long as an hour on the plane.
Back when I was using airport manual wheelchairs, I had some real dicey pushers. The worst being a guy at CDG. I was going on a flat travelator to the luggage area. The guy was in a hurry, and I think he was trying to impress the cute travel assistant lady who was helping me. He was pushing me, and was running pretty fast on the travelator. Of course, he hits the end of it, with a sizable bump/threshold and launches me out of the chair.
The best was a guy at PHX who was an ASU football player. Nice guy, and we were getting close to boarding time, so he was hustling. Got a $20 tip.
They're not supposed to put wheelchair on the moving sidewalk. I've seen it happen a few times and had it done once myself. Luckily i wasn't tossed out, they did it because of the incline at the airport. (JNB has a fairly steep incline in arrival immigration corridor)