People with a disability don't use carts. They use wheelchairs.
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People with a disability don't use carts. They use wheelchairs.
Dog Wonder
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ClueByFour
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They expect tips from the disabled?
Does not pass the smell test.
Does not pass the smell test.
BuffaloJoe
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Knowing Philly, they want to change it the way they did the taxi's. You get off the plane the agent will have to call them to come. And knowing Street, they'll have a meter on them! :down:
The agents driving the carts should be CAR agents covered under CWA contract. No tipping required, but seeing that they make less than regular agents by quite a bit, I'm sure they appreciate the tips.
JS would make a terrible CRO since his position is if you are disabled, use a wheelchair, or you dont need help. There are many customers who have a disability that DO NOT want to use a wheelchair and we cant make them use one. Blind customers, customers who CAN walk but have trouble with long distances, etc. Most of the true WCHR customers are those who cant walk much further than the door of the plane without help. True, there are some lazy people who want the cart, but there are a lot more of our customers who need the cart to get the long distances from A to C. Also families traveling with small children and many elderly use the carts due to the distance. I guess they're just lazy too?
JS would make a terrible CRO since his position is if you are disabled, use a wheelchair, or you dont need help. There are many customers who have a disability that DO NOT want to use a wheelchair and we cant make them use one. Blind customers, customers who CAN walk but have trouble with long distances, etc. Most of the true WCHR customers are those who cant walk much further than the door of the plane without help. True, there are some lazy people who want the cart, but there are a lot more of our customers who need the cart to get the long distances from A to C. Also families traveling with small children and many elderly use the carts due to the distance. I guess they're just lazy too?
Actually, if I were a CRO (not sure what that is but I get the context), this is what I would do when banning carts:
Hire enough friendly, knowledgeable employees such that when a plane arrives and a wheelchair is requested, one shows up promptly (two minutes tops). Tipping is forbidden, and any employee caught being a tip whore or even accepting a tip will be terminated. If it costs me $12 an hour that's fine. That will be more than made up by the good PR and patronage of the disabled and elderly (or just plain lazy, that's OK too, though you won't save time using a wheelchair).
Sorry to go on a tangent, but the entire concept of tipping really irks me.
My policy would be that anyone can request a wheelchair, and I will staff the airport appropriately. I'm not worried about having a staff of 500 wheelchair pushers because there can't be that many people who would use a wheelchair unnecessarily, if you have to wait 60 seconds and you don't move any faster.
Dog Wonder
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A CRO is a Complaint Resolution Official.
Requesting tips from customers with disabilities is forbidden under federal law.
You still haven't explained why you say customers with disabilities are lazy.
Advice from people like you will not provide 'good PR and patronage of the disabled and elderly'.
Physical disabilty and age don't eliminate the ability to see sheer idiocy.
US1YFARE
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they're always not watching where they are going...running over your feet with their wheelchairs, tripping you with their legs in the aisles, bumping into you because they can't see...you'd think they'd pay attention more...
Where did I say that?
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Lots of things don't pass the smell test. In PHX which is was HP now US hub of the west they use electric carts.
So why would an anti electric cart management cartel use them in the home base hub?
A big US city that does not use carts is DCA simply because the concourse is too narrow just like PHL is.
Could the reason to switch to wheelchairs simply be a reaction to the limitations of the concourse infrastructure.
Wouldn't that be a smart thing to do? :blink:
Oh well has anyone benn able to confirm this plan yet?
So why would an anti electric cart management cartel use them in the home base hub?
A big US city that does not use carts is DCA simply because the concourse is too narrow just like PHL is.
Could the reason to switch to wheelchairs simply be a reaction to the limitations of the concourse infrastructure.
Wouldn't that be a smart thing to do? :blink:
Oh well has anyone benn able to confirm this plan yet?
Harry Callahan
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Our carts in CLT are operated by US employees under the CWA contract. I hope this isn't true about PHL doing away with carts as they are much needed as has been stated.
