A Porter Airlines captain denied a passenger boarding over his wheelchair's batteries, per CBC. But Ken Harrower's power chair uses a gel battery that IATA says is nondangerous. Porter said the ...

A Canadian airline’s pilot erroneously told a man who uses a motorized wheelchair that he couldn’t board a flight because the batteries connected to his mobility aid presented “a dangerous threat,” ...

Southwest Airlines will require passengers to remove lithium batteries from mobility devices and carry them into the cabin. The new policy, which begins Sept. 25, is a safety measure to reduce the ...

A B.C. woman is speaking out about how she was stunned to learn a new ferry service between Nanaimo and Vancouver doesn’t accept passengers in electric wheelchairs. Kari Brown-John said she was ...