As far as I am concerned this is a civil rights issue, and every travel agent should have a basic working knowledge of accessible travel. But, as you may well know, that's not exactly the way things work today. Believe it or not, some travel agents think you can roll your wheelchair right on to the airplane, and then secure it with special tie-downs. And then of course there was the travel agent who wanted to know how to ship a wheelchair to Mexico. The obvious solution to this problem is education.
Somebody needs to teach travel agents the basics about accessible travel.
There are a lot of enterprising people out there, and this is a great market for the right person. As I said, this is a civil rights issue, and every travel agent should have a basic working knowledge of accessible travel. And that's the way it should be. All rights reserved. This page last updated 3 May, 2000.