Airports Authority of India — wheelchair porters scamming travellers.

In dabolim airport goa. After witnessing a porter strike a deal with an able bodied woman to put her into a wheelchair and take her, her husband and her daughter to the front of the check in queue i posted on a goa forum about it. I'm shocked by other travelers accounts of this scam. I have had over 200 replies. The forum is called 'goa paradise and dreams'. Most have either witnessed or have been approached by wheelchair porters offering a wheelchair and a trip straight to the front of check in for various amounts including £10 and €20. All are able bodied and declined although lots do take the offer. Also people who have needed the wheelchairs have been refused when payment was not forthcoming. All complaints have fallen on deaf ears while the porters laugh at the passengers. I'm disgusted to say the least. This is a new low. The porters must be stopped from taking money of any kind. Stop the 'tipping' and there will be no cause for the porters to offer the wheelchairs and priority check in to able bodied people. This will save queue time and leave wheelchairs for genuine disabled people. It's an absolute outrage that disabled people have been refused and/or tossed out of wheelchairs because they wouldn't pay. I would also ask that you consider if the 'wheelchairs go to the front' rule be abolished. Obviously there will be certain cases that need to go through quickly but the majority of wheelchair users are going to be sitting whether they are in a queue at check in or are through to the other side. Members of my own family would be fine waiting their turn. This will stop the able bodied jumping into wheelchairs and will stop the porters scamming such large sums of money.