As a wheelchair user who loves to travel, especially by air, it will probably come as no surprise that I want to flag this news up this morning. Tanni Grey-Thompson is heading a new campaign to make airlines more accessible for wheelchair users. “Airline and airport staff should have mandatory training in disability and accessibility awareness, a government taskforce has urged, to ease the stress, confusion and harm experienced by the growing numbers of passengers requiring assistance to travel.” The report was by a cross bench parliamentary group lead by Grey-Thompson. It’s high-time, if you ask me. I’m semi-ambulant, so I usually walk from my chair to my plane seat whenever I’m going anywhere; yet when I used to go abroad with Lyn, what she was often put through in terms of being hauled around airports and onto aircraft was deplorable. That’s not to mention the foul looks we both often got from our fellow passengers when putting our chairs into luggage delayed flights. It’s good to see someone in a position of authority finally getting their finger out and doing something about this issue