Gogglebox star Simon Minty has spoken about his negative experiences of travelling after watching a powerful documentary.
The 56-year-old – who was born with dwarfism – tuned into Channel 4’s Fight to Fly, presented by Sophie Morgan – which led to him recalling ‘dehumanising’ treatment.
In the hour-long programme, former Loose Women star Sophie – who was paralysed as a teenager – highlighted how disabled customers can be treated on flights. As part of the investigation into the current landscape, disabled campaigners and friends went undercover and filmed their experience.
Throughout the programme, viewers saw a wheelchair getting broken, a person being told they couldn’t fly as their wheelchair was too heavy, another being manhandled without permission, and a pilot making a tannoy announcement insinuating a disabled passenger was to blame for a delay. In one particularly hard-hitting moment, a disabled man was forced to drag himself across the floor to reach …