Loose Women star Sophie Morgan says British Airways will pay for wheelchair repairs after damage
ok.co.ukLoose Women panelist Sophie Morgan has revealed that British Airways has told her it will pay for damage to her wheelchair equipment, after a flight with the airline.The ITV star said her Batec, described as an attachment for a wheelchair which turns it into a mobility hand bike, was not working when she picked it up after leaving the plane.
In an Instagram clip to her stories on Saturday, the presenter, 38, said: “British Airways have said they are going to pay for any repairs or replacements that I need, because there’s an electric fault that’s happened.
I don’t know how yet, I haven’t got to the bottom (of it but) I’m grateful for that… All things considered, it could be a lot worse, but it just shouldn’t be the case in the first place.” She added there needs to be a “greater kind of commitment” from airlines to make sure there is action that prevents damage and goes further then “apologies and compensation”.
Sophie, who has also presented Crufts, the Paralympics, The One Show and Dispatches, said it is not the first time it has happened to her and that she will have a meeting with BA, which was already set for Monday before this incident, to discuss the issue The presenter, who was paralysed from the chest down in a car crash when she was 18, said: “I’m going to do everything I possibly can to try and make the situation better. ” She had described the Batec as “not working” on Friday following a flight with BA.
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