{"id":265158,"date":"2025-08-11T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/check-in-glitch-216000-lawsuit-american-airlines\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:42:31","slug":"check-in-glitch-spurs-216000-lawsuit-against-american-airlines-by-disabled-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=265158","title":{"rendered":"Check-In Glitch Spurs $216,000 Lawsuit Against American Airlines By Disabled Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from Illinois is suing the <strong>one<\/strong>world carrier, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span>, following an incident in <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278727\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/paris\/\"  >Paris<\/a><\/span>, where a glitch in online check-in limited access to people with disabilities. Kelsey Brickl, of Illinois, lives with a severe form of cardiac and neuromuscular impairments. This has led to her needing the use of a specially designed powered <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/flying-with-a-wheelchair\/\" >wheelchair<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One woman&#8217;s fight for justice exposes a glaring issue in air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[396,476,636,604,1737,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-paris-charles-de-gaulle-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265158","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=265158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265159,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265158\/revisions\/265159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}