Rights commission looking into 2019 complaint by Israeli using electric wheelchair
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken up a four-year-old case in which an airline refused boarding to an Israeli tourist using an electric wheelchair.
NHRC commissioner Wasan Paileeklee said the tourist had booked a flight from Chiang Mai to Suvarnabhumi airport on March 4, 2019, and had sent information regarding his wheelchair battery 48 hours before the flight.
The airline, which the NHRC did not name, denied his request when he got to Chiang Mai Airport, saying it did not have a policy that allowed passengers with…
