Our airport offers free parking to veterans — a gesture I fully support — but people with valid handicap permits still pay full price.
Those of us with disabilities face daily obstacles that don’t vanish when we travel. Getting from the parking lot to the terminal can be costly, exhausting, and painful.
This isn’t about taking benefits away from veterans. It’s about fairness. Accessibility is a right, and our airport should extend the same parking consideration to people with disabilities as they are one of the only places in town that charge handicapped people to park.
It’s time for management to step up and make parking policy fair for all. If their version of inclusion leaves out people with disabilities, it’s not inclusion.
Megan MacInnes
Prince George
