Posted on 05/20/2024 9:20:12 AM PDT by aquila48
A “plus-size” travel influencer claimed a Washington airport worker refused to push her in a wheelchair up the jet bridge because of her size, which left her gasping for air when she was forced to walk off the plane.
Jae’lynn Chaney, 27, revealed on TikTok that she requested “wheelchair assistance” during her trip to Sea-Tac International Airport in Washington.
“I’m a plus-size wheelchair user and on a recent flight to the Sea-Tac airport, I requested wheelchair assistance, as I always do,” a narrator said on Chaney’s post. “When it came time for me to deplane, I saw the employee who would be assisting me with my wheelchair waiting for me in the entry of the jet bridge.”
The influencer, who has amassed over 135,500 followers on the platform, claimed the employee started walking away from the plane when she saw the traveler deboard the plane.
“As I approached her and she realized she’d be assisting me and not one of the smaller passengers she started to walk away with the wheelchair while making comments about my size,” Chaney claimed.
Chaney, who can walk, allegedly told the employee she needed the chair but was “blatantly ignored,” forcing her to walk up “one of the longest jet bridges I’ve encountered.”
The long walk took a lot of energy out of the influencer, and she claimed she nearly fainted.
“By the time she let me reach the wheelchair and sit down my lips were white, my oxygen levels had dropped, and I almost fainted,” Chaney recalled.
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She’ll be dead soon enough if she’s at a point where she needs to use a wheelchair for short distances.
THIS is the “one” you ALWAYS get seated next to, in coach flights from NY to LAX.......They don’t need a wheelchair to board, they need a forklift.
To the surprise to nobody, the “healthy at any size” movement has been funded in large part by Unilever, the nation’s number one producer of ice cream.
With her size, I’d say its near 50-percent chance she won’t make it past 45.
I guess people in her life, that she trusts, never simply told her to LOSE SOME WEIGHT!!!!
Plus sized! Stop being nice
How in the world did get get down the aisle.
My sympathy is for the person that got the middle seat unless she bought two seats.
Why didn’t this repulsive creature’s lazy photographer push her up the ramp?
“Plus-size influencer”? I’ll bet that the Moon can feel her influence...
Sheese lady a little walk would do you good.
I realize she may have medical problems that cause her to be overweight but walking is the best exercise.
Besides the Earths gravitational pull, what does she ‘influence’?
Has she ever been seen in the same room with Jabba The Hutt?!
She’s 27? Good Lord. She looks twice her age.
She definitely needs to lose about 200 pounds!
Obviously.
Does she have an oxygen machine next to her on the plane? What is that contraption?
She looks just like the person that was seated next to me at the Peter Frampton show I went to in Cincinnati last year. I had move to seats further back than what I bought. Pi$$ed me off.
I wonder how big the hole in the ground would be if she was somehow (safely, or course) discarded from the airplane.
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