{"id":148932,"date":"2024-11-11T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wheelchair-athletes-southwest-airlines-complaint\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:20:07","slug":"where-it-hurts-wheelchair-athlete-hopes-southwest-airlines-faces-major-fine-after-mishaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=148932","title":{"rendered":"Where It Hurts: Wheelchair Athlete Hopes Southwest Airlines Faces Major Fine After Mishaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona woman has filed a complaint against Dallas-based             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/southwest-heart.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> after the carrier         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-damages-basketball-team-wheelchairs\/\" >damaged a basketball teams wheelchairs amid a cross-country trip for a national championship earlier this year<\/a><\/span>. Months later, the frustrated woman is alleging the low-cost airline violated federal laws regarding the treatment of disabled passengers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline admitted to its mistakes earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,1143,794,645,1777,5473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-complaints","category-passengers","category-southwest-airlines","category-us-department-of-transportation","category-wheelchair"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148933,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148932\/revisions\/148933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}