[TexasFreeper2009]

no one should be allowed to do that unless they have a documented disability.

[Dandy]

I always board last so I dont spend as much time in a crowded plane.

[L,TOWM]

There it is.

If you don’t have a handicapped license plate placard, no pre-boarding wheelchair unless you bring your own. And that is the thing - how did the “disabled person” check in, get through security, and make it to the gate unless they got their own?

And as for the current system?

Record the names of the persons using “wheelchair assistance” to board the plane, cross check against anyone using the assistance to get off the plane and where you don’t have a corresponding match, they go on a “BYOC” list — no further pre-board without without bringing your own chair.

[Nifster]

I get a wheel chair assist from gate to plane to seat. Yes it gets me through the line better. And safely onto to the plane. I look like I’m fine but I’ve got three pins in my knee and three in my hip. I can’t tolerate the long lines standing and walking

Tough toe nails to those who don’t approve. I’ll trade conditions with you any day

[ThanhPhero]

I have seen that scam many times and the wheelchair lines get longer and longer year by year. It does not affect me because I tend to wait until the end of the line before I go. I find it is easier and on my first connecting flight I always have an aisle seat and often on the other two flights to and from Việt Nam.

Airlines are required o provide wheelchair service for "disabled" passengers and if they deny a wheelchair to an obviously healthy and able passenger they become involved in altercations and lawsuits. so they have to take the passenger's word for it. It is like the progression after service dogs for blind people became in the law service "animals" for any condition at all and proof is not required, only assertion so you get dogs and cats and other sorts of critters given entry to restaurants and grocery stores and WalMart. You deny someone his assertion that the buzzard is his service- and now even "comfort" animal and you have a lawsuit to defend.

[Flying Circus]

I believe a provision in the ADA prohibits them from questioning anyone’s disability status. You can basically go into any business, claim a disability and the business is required to accomodate that disability with no questions asked. Don’t blame the ariline, blame the Congress that made the rules for the airlines.

[cyclotic]

Same with fake service animals.