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Jerry, I worked in the disability field for years. First of all people with disabilities are employed at much lower rates than the average population because of discrimination. Therefore they have less money than many.
I understand that reality. I’m just saying that this is just one more burden they have to bear. It’s expensive to have a disability. Short of a completely different economic system, I was only saying that it’s no more discriminatory to have them pay the extra cost of air travel than it is to have them pay more for many other things. If they have to have a specialized modification in order to drive a vehicle, they (or someone) has to pay for that. If their housing has to be modified to accommodate their condition, they have to pay for that. The discrimination came by way of the affliction picking person A versus person B. After that, it’s the unfortunate cost of the situation, not discrimination by the organization (airline in this case) to charge them.