All my life I have been on a plane only twice, this was before I got a motorized/power chair. Whenever my family and I want to go on a trip, we have to drive or take an extremely long train ride. Why? Well because getting me out of my wheelchair and trusting it with complete strangers who do not understand that the equipment that they are tasked with handling is my legs, is too much of a hassle! So a trip to New York May take 16 - 18 hours instead of 2 1/2 hours. 

The only planes with a wheelchair lift and a section for said wheelchair are Medical Evac planes. To buy a handicap accessible plane costs millions of dollars. That doesn’t include hiring a pilot, co-pilot, and paying for the gasoline. Not everyone has a few million dollars just lying around. We have medical bills from surgery to pay if insurance companies decide that the said surgery wasn’t a necessity. Or if we have to buy equipment to make simple things more accessible for us. 

So what are Airline companies expecting us to do? Just sit here and watch while everyone else can go on a trip to the other side of the country in 2 - 3 hours? That is definitely not right! The world is evolving. The handicapped community needs to be thought of right from the start, not after the major decisions have been made.