Comments on: AirAsia - Aisle Chair In Every Aircraft http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/ Living One Day At A Time Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: pelf http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/#comment-19733 pelf Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:40:27 +0000 http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/#comment-19733 I googled "intermittent catheterisation" and now I have a better idea. Thanks for the explanation :) <strong>Peter: :D You are most welcomed.</strong> I googled “intermittent catheterisation” and now I have a better idea. Thanks for the explanation :)

Peter:
:D You are most welcomed.

]]> By: KY http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/#comment-19726 KY Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:46:52 +0000 http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/#comment-19726 seems like they are doing something to better suit their "everyone can fly" motto, not bad. :D <strong>Peter: We are all anxiously waiting for the day we can fly with AirAsia. This will be a momentous event in the history of Malaysia's disability movement.</strong> seems like they are doing something to better suit their “everyone can fly” motto, not bad. :D

Peter:
We are all anxiously waiting for the day we can fly with AirAsia. This will be a momentous event in the history of Malaysia’s disability movement.

]]> By: pelf http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/#comment-19719 pelf Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:55:46 +0000 http://www.petertan.com/blog/2007/08/06/airasia-aisle-chair-in-every-aircraft/#comment-19719 Please forgive me for being so ignorant and straight-forward, but how does sitting on the aisle chair facilitates going to the toilet? Is it because it's smaller so it can easily fit into the toilet in most aircraft? <strong>Peter: When flying, our wheelchairs have to be stored in the cargo hold. We are also unable to use the wheelchair inside the plane because of the narrow aisle and also due to international aviation regulations. As such, we lose our mobility. An aisle chair is small enough to fit into the aisle. Whenever there is a need to go to the toilet, we transfer from the aircraft seat to the aisle chair and the cabin crew will push us to the toilet to do whatever we have to do there. An aisle chair is still to large too fit into the toilet. In my case, I perform intermittent catheterisation outside the toilet with the curtain pulled across for some privacy. After I am done, I empty the contents of the kidney dish into the toilet and wash up.</strong> Please forgive me for being so ignorant and straight-forward, but how does sitting on the aisle chair facilitates going to the toilet? Is it because it’s smaller so it can easily fit into the toilet in most aircraft?

Peter:
When flying, our wheelchairs have to be stored in the cargo hold. We are also unable to use the wheelchair inside the plane because of the narrow aisle and also due to international aviation regulations. As such, we lose our mobility. An aisle chair is small enough to fit into the aisle.

Whenever there is a need to go to the toilet, we transfer from the aircraft seat to the aisle chair and the cabin crew will push us to the toilet to do whatever we have to do there.

An aisle chair is still to large too fit into the toilet. In my case, I perform intermittent catheterisation outside the toilet with the curtain pulled across for some privacy. After I am done, I empty the contents of the kidney dish into the toilet and wash up.

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