Panel to discuss Thai domestic airline which rejects passengers in wheelchairs

A subcommittee on the elimination of discrimination against persons with disabilities will meet soon to address the problem of a domestic airline refusing to allow disabled passengers in wheelchairs to board its flights.

Canadian opens the door of an airplane in Chiang Mai and deploys a slider during take-off

Social Development and Human Security Minister Varawut Silpa-archa said today that he is saddened by the airline’s discriminatory treatment of disabled people and has instructed officials to raise the matter with the subcommittee.

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By Thai PBS World