{"id":14283,"date":"2023-11-22T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/it-was-humiliating-paraplegic-westjet-passenger-pulled-herself-up-stairs-from-tarmac-to-airplane\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:37:28","slug":"it-was-humiliating-paraplegic-westjet-passenger-pulled-herself-up-stairs-from-tarmac-to-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/it-was-humiliating-paraplegic-westjet-passenger-pulled-herself-up-stairs-from-tarmac-to-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was humiliating&#8217;: Paraplegic WestJet passenger pulled herself up stairs from tarmac to airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VBRhuN-8yQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As a former Paralympian and president of BC Adaptive Snow Sports, Sarah Morris-Probert is a frequent flier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to travel. I don\u2019t like the means of getting there at times, but I like the end results,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t immediately concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\nSubscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former Paralympian and president of BC Adaptive Snow Sports, Sarah Morris-Probert is a frequent flier. \u201cI like to travel. I don\u2019t like the means of getting there at times, but I like the end results,\u201d she said. Morris-Probert&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15111,848,2754,1757,2755,2147,8107,48,15115,15116,15112,15113,1853,15114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}