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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/584100

Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August

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[โ€“] SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Hodgins says he was offered a C$2,000 flight voucher by the airline, but said compensation would not โ€œfix the problemโ€ of how the airline failed its disabled passengers."

Given how much this seems to be happening I'd be for fining any airline that does this 100k. Half for the victims and half for disability advocacy groups.

[โ€“] Stamets@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah. That's the line that got me too. It's just another demonstration of how this country overall fails to, even remotely, adequately take care of disabled people. I'm on the low end of that spectrum but I have to deal with hell constantly. The more difficult a position you're in the less anyone seems to care. Example? Landlords in Ontario will openly refuse to rent to you if you're on Disability. This is flagrantly illegal but there is zero oversight and backlash for doing it just like Air Canada has zero real consequences or backlash.

Disabled folks across the board are going to be treated like shit endlessly until there's both someone in a position to help who's willing to help and that the majority of people are willing to even care in the first place to help.

We're going to see another story like this from Air Canada or some other major Canadian corporation this Christmas season. I guarantee it. At least one.

[โ€“] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not 100k. The total ticket price of every person on that plane. Make it unprofitable to be inhuman bastards.

[โ€“] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After operation expenses I feel like that's about $100k profit per trip

[โ€“] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's easier to just guarantee it's a loss after such a trip by taking the income they generated for that trip and removing it.

[โ€“] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're right and it would avoid airlines raising rates to compensate