Two Chinese disabled passengers have sued a mainland budget airline that stopped them boarding a flight because they were not accompanied by an able-bodied person and were “unable to take care of themselves”, mainland media reports.

The lawyer for the two wheelchair-bound passengers, who are paralysed from the waist down, told a lawsuit at a Shanghai court on Wednesday that the case against Juneyao Airlines was a fight not only for their right to travel, but also the right to travel of more than 85 million other disabled mainlanders, news website Thepaper.cn reported on Thursday.

Paraplegics have full use of their arms and hands, so we suspect that when the airline staff says they were “unable to take care of themselves”, that’s code for “can’t go to the tiny airplane bathroom by themselves and just might pee on our seats”. The reality is that many paraplegics use catheters, and the ones that don’t likely dehydrate themselves to avoid the issue. (Note that this practice is severely frowned upon by doctors and is extremely uncomfortable for the disabled person.)

Read more at: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1909277/one-all-and-all-one-lawsuit-chinese-wheelchair-users-banned