‘Humiliated’: Jetstar slammed over refusing to fly disabled passengers

Jetstar’s treatment of two high-profile disabled campaigners has been condemned as unacceptable by New Zealand’s Disability Issues Minister Tariana Turia.

Tanya Black and Dan Buckingham – presenters of TVNZ disability show Attitude – had been due to fly from Auckland to Wellington yesterday morning but were not allowed on to their aircraft after they were told they each needed to fly with their own caregiver.

After an embarrassing standoff of 20 minutes or more, they ditched Jetstar and bought new tickets to Wellington on Air New Zealand — via redwolf.newsvine.com