Outrage over boarding charges

25 September 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
Disabled persons / Disabled persons policy and administration
Bassaka Air / Cambodia Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO) / Disability Action Council

A government minister has threatened legal action, and disability groups are up in arms, after a small Cambodian airline forced a disabled passenger to pay $240 on top of her ticket price for help getting on and off an aircraft.

Bassaka Air has admitted demanding the extra cash from Sudanese wheelchair user Rahma El Siddig Gasm Elbari Mustafa when she turned up at Siem Riep to board a flight to Phnom Penh on September 19. …

 Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outrage-over-boarding-charges

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