21 May 2025
In our latest podcast, we speak to @sophmorgTV & Sarah Lazenby, the team behind @Channel4’s #FightToFly, about the importance of #accessibility & representation in #television on and off-screen. We also dig into our new landmark study with @Channel4Skills: screenskills.com/news/listen…
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24 Feb 2025
Happy birthday Sophie Morgan
#SophieMorgan #tv #presenter #LooseWomen #TheOneShow #Horizon #Channel4News #Paralympics #Crufts #FightToFly #LivingWild #LuxuryForLess #LuxuryFashionForLess #LuxuryFoodForLess #LuxuryHolidaysForLess #TricksOfTheRestaurantTrade #BestLaidPlans
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28 Jul 2024
All fine in the end but @Ryanair have booked incorrect assistance for me. I have email confirmation that I booked assistance that requires the use of an aisle chair but this has then been changed to me not requiring the aisle chair. Shambles! #Fighttofly @RightsOnFlights
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25 Jul 2024
I genuinely fear for the day I'm no longer mobile. The lack of respect for disabled people in this country is scary. The sheer indignity that the people in #FighttoFly face is appalling and it's got to stop. Disabled people are no less human than anyone else.
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25 Jul 2024
I'm in a different situation to the people in #FighttoFly - I have MS and can walk - just struggle standing/queuing for a long time or walking a long way so I use airport assistance and borrow a wheelchair.
My experience last Sept at @manairport going to Schiphol...
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25 Jul 2024
Watching the Sophie Morgan documentary - #FightToFly. I'm so fucking angry right now.
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25 Jul 2024
The PRM at @SouthendAirport is entirely made up of people with various disabilities.
The team at the airport are amazing!
@sophmorgTV #FightToFly
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24 Jul 2024
@Ryanair I really hope our experience in September will not be like that on #fighttofly
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24 Jul 2024
These issues and many more are covered in @sophmorgTV’s eye-opening programme.
I highly recommend you watch it to get an accurate picture of how disabled travellers face such a #FightToFly.
It’s time for the aviation industry to wake up.⏰
📺channel4.com/programmes/soph…
✈️♿️
ALT Laurie pictured outside Munich Airport pointing towards a replica of the European Championship trophy next to a Euro 2024-themed bench.
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24 Jul 2024
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On Monday, @Channel4 aired a hard-hitting documentary, fronted by disability advocate @sophmorgTV, #FightToFly.
It laid bare the reality of air travel for those with physical disabilities, wheelchair users in particular. Hopefully, this can drive meaningful change.🤞
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ALT Laurie pictured on an aircraft looking at the camera.
ALT The view in front of Laurie on an Airbus A320 aircraft showing the legroom.
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24 Jul 2024
If you want to know why I, a disabled person, would opt to travel round Europe only via train instead of flying I really recommend you watching 'Sophie Morgan's Fight To Fly.' #fighttofly @Channel4 #accessibletravel
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23 Jul 2024
Watched @sophmorgTV's #FightToFly - broken wheelchairs, injured and traumatised disabled people, staff not trained to lift passengers properly. All this just to travel. A triggering watch.
Nothing surprising for disabled viewers but hope that air travel will change. Please.
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23 Jul 2024
Made it in one piece but I can honestly say Birmingham airport was an absolute shambles and compared to Palma, we are streets behind . Much work needed #fighttofly
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23 Jul 2024
Thank you, @sophmorgTV, @Channel4 and other valuable participants for bringing to light the challenges faced by passengers with reduced mobility in aviation in the must watch "Sophie Morgan's Fight to Fly" documentary. ✈️♿️
#FightToFly #accessibletravel #SophieMorgan #PRMAssist
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23 Jul 2024
Just caught up with #FightToFly by @sophmorgTV A real eye-opener for someone like me who is relatively able and, I hope, empathetic. channel4.com/programmes/soph… The lack of representation of people with disability at policymaking level in the airline industry is obviously bonkers.
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23 Jul 2024
Getting from A to B must be accessible for all, on all modes of transportation. No excuses
#DisabledPeopleDemand #FightToFly
23 Jul 2024
#FightToFly
However disabled people travel, whether it be by plane, train, bus, taxi we are still fighting societal attitudes alongside poorly designed public transport or poorly trained staff, access teams & lack of equipment provision.
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23 Jul 2024
.@SophMorgTV’s #FightToFly on @Channel4 highlights key issues faced by disabled people when they fly. Kiera's story is one of many
She left the airport "traumatised" after she was told one of her mobility scooter batteries would be destroyed
Read more: shorturl.at/5gFRj
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23 Jul 2024
Last year in @LawAndCritique I wrote about the destruction airlines cause to mobility aids & disabled people. Figured it would be outdated almost as soon as it's published bc surely there would be political/legal intervention, yet here we are #FightToFly
link.springer.com/article/10…
ALT A screenshot of Frances Ryan's 4 star review of the TV programme 'Sophie Morgan's Fight to Fly'
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23 Jul 2024
#FightToFly
However disabled people travel, whether it be by plane, train, bus, taxi we are still fighting societal attitudes alongside poorly designed public transport or poorly trained staff, access teams & lack of equipment provision.
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23 Jul 2024
Next time you ask “how was your holiday?” bear in mind I’ll have experienced most of what's on the #FightToFly doc made by the brilliant @sophmorgTV and friends just to get there and back. Hope the AATA becomes law so everyone has #RightsOnFlights✈️♿️
channel4.com/programmes/soph…
22 Jul 2024
As part of a @Channel4 documentary, disability advocate Sophie Morgan talks about her inspiration to launch ‘Rights on Flights’ and campaigns for airlines to be held accountable for poor treatment of disabled passengers.
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