Wheelchair user crawls up plane stairs in dispute with Japanese airline

Japanese budget airline Vanilla Air Inc. has apologized to a wheelchair user after he crawled up boarding stairs in a dispute with a staffer at an airport in southern Japan.According to the company wholly owned by ANA Holdings Inc., at the time Amami Airport was the only one it flew to that lacked equipment to assist with the boarding and disembarkation of wheelchair users.Hideto Kijima, 44, and friends visited Amami Oshima, a resort island in Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 3 to 5, using Vanilla flights from and to Kansai airport in Osaka Prefecture.Kijima, who is paralyzed in the lower body…READ FULL ARTICLE