A wheelchair bound paralympian on an Emirates flight to Australia for the Commonwealth Games has been forced to wait an hour for assistance to go to the toilet because her “climbing on the floor” would upset other passengers.
British athlete Nikki Emerson, 29, said after she successfully made her way to the toilet by crawling on the floor, she was stopped by an airline stewardess on her way out and told her behaviour was “unacceptable”.
“She said, ‘you can’t be on the floor, it’ll upset people, let me help you to walk’ and I said, ‘well I can’t walk at all’ and that obviously caused an issue,” Ms Emerson told BBC Radio 5.
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