‘It was humiliating’: Paraplegic WestJet passenger pulled herself up stairs from tarmac to airplane

As a former Paralympian and president of BC Adaptive Snow Sports, Sarah Morris-Probert is a frequent flier.

“I like to travel. I don’t like the means of getting there at times, but I like the end results,” she said.

Morris-Probert told WestJet back in April that she was a travelling with a wheelchair on a return flight between Kelowna and Cabo San Lucas. But when she arrived at the gate to fly home on Saturday, she learned there was no jet bridge to get to the plane. Passengers would be put on buses and driven out onto the tarmac, and there was a lift to get her into the plane. She wasn’t immediately concerned.

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