Airline passengers on 'Jetway Jesus' and 'miracle' flights accused of faking disabilities for better boarding

Social media users are blasting alleged "Jetway Jesus" and "miracle flight" occurrences these days, accusing much and much hose passengers of scamming the question strategy by utilizing wheelchairs to dodge lines and committee planes aboriginal — past walking disconnected their planes unassisted erstwhile they onshore astatine their destinations.

In the "r/todayilearned" forum connected Reddit, 1 idiosyncratic elaborate the mode "miracle flights" look to beryllium moving lately.

"People fake mobility issues, get astatine the boarding gross successful wheelchairs, [then] unafraid amended attraction and amended seats," the idiosyncratic noted.

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The idiosyncratic added, "Once the formation is over, [these travelers] permission the level unassisted and [don't] request wheelchairs — successful effect, [the] flights miraculously cure these people."

One idiosyncratic openly admitted, "I person my grandma wheeled astir erstwhile I instrumentality her to the airport, truthful she doesn’t get mislaid connected the mode to the gate. No mobility issues whatsoever."

Social media users are slamming "Jetway Jesus" and "miracle flight" occurrences, claiming an expanding fig of hose passengers are faking mobility issues to committee planes earlier than astir different travelers. (iStock)

Another idiosyncratic said, "This is conscionable firm propaganda against the Americans With Disabilities Act."

A antithetic idiosyncratic claimed, "The hose told maine that erstwhile connecting astatine O'Hare [in Chicago] — erstwhile you person to question a agelong region successful a abbreviated magnitude of clip — you should inquire for a wheelchair."

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A antithetic idiosyncratic commented, "Obviously, immoderate radical are committing fraud … Some radical astir apt tin walk, but lone with a cane oregon with important issues."

Airlines person recorded a 30% yearly summation successful wheelchair assistance requests astatine bigger airports, according to the International Air Transport Agency (AITA), a commercialized radical representing airlines astir the world, with enforcement offices successful Geneva, Switzerland. 

"The sizeable summation successful wheelchair assistance requests is simply a cardinal contented for the aviation industry," said a commercialized radical recently.  (iStock)

"The sizeable summation successful wheelchair assistance requests is simply a cardinal contented for the aviation industry," the enactment noted successful a caller memo. "To recognize the standard of the problem, IATA is looking astatine the contented done surveys and studies."

Airlines person recorded a 30% yearly summation successful wheelchair assistance requests astatine bigger airports.

It noted that "the requests are much prevalent successful circumstantial geographies (e.g. flights to and from India, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Europe)." 

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It besides said that "many assistance requests whitethorn travel from passengers who bash not person carnal disabilities but bash not consciousness assured navigating done a engaged airport, oregon radical who request directional assistance for immoderate reason, including age."

Gary Leff, a Texas-based travel industry expert and writer of the blog "View From the Wing," told Fox News Digital that "boarding aboriginal [may] get you entree to a amended spot connected board," depending connected the airline. 

"There are lone truthful galore declaration workers assisting with wheelchairs astatine each airport, truthful frivolous requests wounded those with a existent need," said a question manufacture expert.  (iStock)

He added, "There are lone truthful galore declaration workers assisting with wheelchairs astatine each airport, truthful frivolous requests wounded those with a existent need."

Leff said that "those passengers find themselves waiting longer to deplane, oregon waiting connected the pitchy span for a wheelchair to amusement up."

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Major airlines specified arsenic Jetblue, Delta and American let passengers to petition wheelchairs portion booking flights.

Fox News Digital reached retired to respective airlines astir whether documentation is required erstwhile requesting a wheelchair. A spokesperson for United Airlines responded, "No, we bash not necessitate a doctor's enactment oregon immoderate different impervious of disability."

One rider sees "more wheelchair fraud each clip helium travels," helium said.  (iStock)

The Wall Street Journal, successful a portion this week astir the issue, quoted a rider who said his caller formation was delayed erstwhile 25 wheelchair passengers held up the boarding process.

The passenger, Carlos Gomez, said helium sees "more wheelchair fraud each clip helium travels," according to the article. "It makes an already hectic acquisition of flying adjacent slower."

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Many travelers are "bemoan[ing the] emergence of able-bodied passengers who crippled the strategy to skip the lines," the nonfiction noted astir the "Jetway Jesus" phenomenon.

When passengers locomotion disconnected the level astatine their destination, requiring nary assistance astatine each aft they were wheeled connected committee — "that’s immoderate bully healing close there!" the work said.