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People do not generally fly for no reason. It is travel that is more purposeful, perhaps, than just getting the bus. It can be for holiday, for business or to visit relatives around the world, but it tends to be purposed. It makes the discrimination, the damage to equipment and the indignity even more poignant when you consider the underlying purpose to the travel. For far too long, the Montreal convention has been waived and there is the sense that, as soon as you step or wheel airside, your rights evaporate. We live in a human, interconnected world. We are able to come to international agreements on so many issues, yet we still find ourselves having these circumstances for disabled people when it comes to nothing more complex than wanting to take a flight.