Air France rejects disable passenger

Gordon Airman who suffers from motor  neurone disease(MND), booked ticket with the French  carrier for a honey moon in Paris with was husband Joe Pike but was told he could not board because they could not fit the chair in the hold. A journalist and disability campaigner has called for an apology from the “very top” of Air France after the airline refused to let him on board with his electric wheelchair. 

He said he had spent a week trying to contact the airline using their premium “rip-off” phone line to find out whether they could take his wheelchair - before being rejected with a simple two-line email.

“You know, I’m paralysed by Motor Neurone Disease, my life without my electric wheelchair just isn’t worth living. 

“And you know they wouldn’t stop someone at the door of the aeroplane and say ‘oh sorry sir your legs are too big you are not going to be coming onboard’”.