On Friday, Frontier Airlines complained to Fox Business about the rampant abuse of their wheelchair service. Passenger airlines routinely offer this service, in which an attendant with a wheelchair will transport a disabled passenger to or from their gate. But there is no verification of a passenger’s disability required, and now some travelers have caught on to the notion that if they claim a disability, they can not only get a ride to the gate but be allowed to pre-board the aircraft.
Frontier Airlines said Friday that there is an increasing number of people who are abusing the carrier’s wheelchair system in order to get priority boarding.
“There is widespread abuse among passengers using wheelchair services to move to the front of security lines and obtain priority boarding on flights,” the carrier told FOX Business, adding that “the TSA and airlines are in a difficult position…
