Great news . I recently travelled from Malaga to Stansted and found the experience much more enjoyable than when I made the same journey only a week earlier. Being a wheelchair user, I always dread the thought of landing and finding there is no assistance in place to help me through the airport, waiting hours for someone to turn up… maybe!

However, there is a new EU regulation which came into force on 26^th July this year, stating that all European airports must offer assistance services for passengers with reduced mobility. This European Community measure represents a significant social advance for disabled people and for this reason all the necessary financial, material and human resources have been put into place to make it possible for airports to render a quality service guaranteeing that all people can enjoy air transport anywhere in Europe, regardless of their disability.

Carol Slade, ECDP Executive Assistant