It is a photo that should shame travel industry bosses. A disabled woman left abandoned in an empty plane cabin. The bleak image, which surfaced this month on Twitter, has since been shared thousands of times and published by most national news websites.
I know the woman in the picture well: Victoria Brignell, a well-respected producer at BBC Radio 4 and friend of mine.
Victoria, who is paralysed from the neck down and a wheelchair user, had arrived back at Gatwick on a British Airways flight…