Fight continues for Toronto man denied access to Air Canada flight in 2016

A Toronto antheral is vowing to combat on, aft learning that Air Canada is looking to entreaty a caller judgement by the Canadian Transportation Agency.

Tim Rose is an accessibility consultant, making travel paramount to his profession. In 2016, helium was looking to publication a formation to Cleveland, Ohio, to springiness a presumption connected disablement consciousness and large business.

Instead, helium says helium was told that his powerfulness wheelchair was excessively ample to acceptable into the cargo clasp of the Air Canada aircraft.

“Their nonstop words were, ‘It’s conscionable similar a portion of oversize luggage. If it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit,'” helium told Global News’ Shallima Maharaj.

“To equate my independency with oversize luggage was 1 of the astir hurtful things I person heard.”

Rose went nationalist with his situation, and yet took his lawsuit to the Canadian Transportation Agency. On Aug. 11, aft a hard-fought battle, the bureau sided with Rose.

In its judgment, it issued a acceptable of corrective measures, and ordered Air Canada to person them implemented by nary aboriginal than Dec. 20, 2023.

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Among them, if the hose receives astatine slightest 21 days’ announcement that a person’s wheelchair won’t acceptable wrong the assigned aircraft’s cargo door, it is up to the hose to find a mode to transport that rider with their wheelchair.

However, a period aft the judgement was issued, Rose says helium learned Air Canada had filed a question for permission to appeal.

“Very fewer airlines person recognized the opportunity, the concern accidental that exists successful efficaciously serving the disablement market,” said Rose. “And I truly privation our nationalist hose was 1 of them, but intelligibly they’re not.”

An email effect from Air Canada precocious Monday day reads, successful part, “As this substance is presently earlier the court, that is wherever our comments volition beryllium shared.”