RYANAIR GOES BEYOND WHAT CAN BE CONSIDERED FAIR PLAY

A disabled woman successfully sued Ryanair yesterday after her husband was forced to carry her onto a flight using a fireman’s lift. Wheelchair-bound Jo Heath, 57, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was left sitting beside the plane after a hydraulic lift failed to turn up for 30 minutes. She and her husband asked the crew and pilot for help but they refused in case they hurt themselves. In the end, Mr Heath had to sling his ten stone wife over his shoulder and clamber up the stairs on his own as ground staff, crew members and passengers looked on, shame