Wow. In this day and age, you would think people would stop being complete a**holes!
Margaret Cho is slamming Virgin America, and it’s for a good reason! The 46-year-old is claiming the airline totally embarrassed her disable friend and fellow comedian, Selene Luna!
According to Margaret, Selene, who is a little person recovering from a hip condition, was trying to pre-board a Virgin flight when she was dismissed by the employee and was told to board the plane with everyone else.
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The funny gal claims the Virgin ticket agent said pre-boarding for disabled people was discontinued.
When an LAX employee tried to intervene, siding with Selene, the Virgin America worker just repeated what she had told Cho’s friend beforehand.
After this claim came out, a representative for the airline explained the whole thing was just a miscommunication. They said Virgin definitely offers pre-boarding for special needs guests, and they apologized for the incident.
But that didn’t stop the ladies from tweeting up a storm. A selection of the shares can be found (below):
.@virginamerica Delays are not your fault, but discrimination is. .@SeleneLuna #toobad #youweremyfavebeforeyoudecidedtohatethedisabled #sad
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) March 18, 2015
.@VirginAmerica .@SeleneLuna If you fly coach #virgindontcare #disableddontmattertovirgin #wehaverights #dontaccuseusofattitudewhenitsu
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) March 18, 2015
If you’re disabled, elderly or a baby do NOT count on @VirginAmerica for help. Thank goodness I travel with @margaretcho who has my back!
— Selene Luna (@SeleneLuna) March 18, 2015
And apparently that apology wasn’t enough or believable, because Margaret and Selene are saying they’re totally ready to take legal action if they had money to fight a huge corporation!
Wow. What a mess!
[Image via FayesVision/WENN.]
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