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My experience of traveling by plane

With the purchase of a plane ticket, there was a column while purchasing for people with disabilities, and a colleague who was helping me to buy the ticket clicked that I was a visually impaired person and that I needed a personal assistant.

The first time I went to the airport a friend of mine took me and left me at the counter and it was so from him, here I can only give a small suggestion.

People who don't drive, regardless of friends or taxi drivers, can't help us much, because they are limited by the parking time, after every 10 minutes they will have to pay plus 100 denars fee.



When he left me at the counter, I handed my passport at the counter and I explained that I need a personal assistant, and they themselves saw the ticket as well and helped me sit on the benches in front of the counter, so they informed me that a person/assistant would be with me to assist me with the boarding on the plane.

it really was as they said, a guy who was very kind came over and took on all the responsibilities around me, so he took me to customs control, passport control through all the procedures we go through before we get on a plane.

When he took me to the sitting place, he showed me the seat next to the window, because that's how the rules were for people with disabilities to sit by the window and before he left told me that the stewardesses are there if I need anything.

Then one of the flight attendants came to explain to me all the safety rules, around the belt, lowering the breathing mask, and so on.

During the trip, when the flight attendants walked near to my seat, they asked me if I needed anything.

When we landed, all the passengers disembarked and one of the flight attendants came to pick me up, to hand me over to an assistant who had been provided by the Nuremberg airport, so we waited with him for my suitcase and went through passport control.

He asked me who would wait for me and he was with me until he saw my brother who came to pick up me from the airport.

I have another experience that I want to share.

When I was returning from Germany to Macedonia by plane, I went through all the airport procedures as I wrote above, but when I landed in Macedonia and the flight attendant handed me over to the assistant who was supposed to take me to the man waiting for me, I came across an interesting situation.

He came in a wheelchair and told me to sit down, I initially objected and explained that I was a visually impaired person, but that I could only walk hand in hand.

The man's explanation was that it was easier for him, so I agreed not to bother him and he took me safely to the taxi driver who was waiting for me.