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20 Feb 2012

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NDTV [India]

Differently-abled passenger off-loaded, SpiceJet promises action [India]

In yet another instance of discrimination against differently-abled people, a woman was offloaded from a SpiceJet flight...Jeeja Ghosh, a teacher at Kolkata's Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy and a frequent flier across the country and abroad, was offloaded because the pilot said she was not fit to fly. She has travelled alone in the past, but the pilot did not allow her to do it this time...Demanding action against the pilot, she has filed a complaint saying the experience was not just humiliating for her but for the entire community of differently-abled people who are, however, completely able to travel by themselves. The airline later issued a statement apologising for the inconvenience caused to the passenger. The airline expressed regret for the incident, and said that the matter will be investigated and action taken.