Cory Lee: Disabled travel blogger threatened with ‘TSA guns’ by Delta flight attendant in wheelchair row

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A disabled travel blogger has accused Delta Airlines’s flight attendants of threatening to forcefully deplane him after he insisted he would wait until his wheelchair was brought to the gate. “Believe me, I definitely wanted to get off the plane.” He added that the altercation escalated when a flight attendant asked him to exit and wait for his wheelchair or the Transportation Security Administration would make him “get off the aircraft with all their guns and stuff”. “I have flown into the Atlanta airport hundreds of times and they have always brought my wheelchair to the door of the plane,” Mr Lee wrote on Instagram, where he shared a video clip of his interaction with the flight attendants. “Delta and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport need a serious awakening.” The airline in a statement said the exchange in the video did not reflect the “high standard of care” Delta employees aspired to every day.