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Minister wants AirAsia to settle wheelchair issue [Malaysia]
[M]embers of the Barrier-free Environment and Accessible Transport Group...called on the airline to provide facilities for passengers who were immobile and those with limited mobility and for MAHB [Malaysia Airport Holding Berhad] to ensure all new and old airports were equipped with facilities for the disabled...AirAsia chief executive Datuk Tony Fernandes, meanwhile, denied that the airline had turned away wheelchair-bound passengers. He said ground staff would take such passengers to the aircraft and physically carry them onboard...Fernandes said as a budget airline, it had its limitations unlike full service carriers.