{"id":371340,"date":"2026-02-18T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-apologizes-damages-wheelchair-passenger-cerebral-palsy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:15:23","slug":"delta-air-lines-apologizes-after-damaging-wheelchair-of-passenger-with-cerebral-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=371340","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines Apologizes After Damaging Wheelchair Of Passenger With Cerebral Palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> has responded after a passenger&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"61477\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wheelchair\/\"  >wheelchair<\/a><\/span> was badly damaged during a flight. Latavia Sturdivant, who was crowned Ms. Wheelchair America 2026, has not been able to live her daily life with her specialized wheelchair out of action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline has promised to front the cost of repairs.<\/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":[146,396,476,565,423,5473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-united-states","category-wheelchair"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371340","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=371340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371566,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371340\/revisions\/371566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}