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Virgin Australia refuses passenger flight over wheelchair - 1cm too tall 4 Mar, 2021 08:16 PM 4 minutes to read news.com.au By: Anthony Piovesan NCA NewsWire A Brisbane woman battling muscular dystrophy has been barred from flying on a Virgin plane because her wheelchair is 1cm above the airline s accepted height dimensions. Emma Weatherley tried to book a trip from Brisbane to Cairns for next month on April 6 with Flight Centre, but was told the airline would not accept her motorised wheelchair height of 85cm aboard. I went to America in 2017 with Virgin – booked through Flight Centre – and took this exact wheelchair without any problems, she told NCA NewsWire. ....