World's tallest woman takes her first flight after the airline modifies several seatsAJ Willingham, CNN • Updated 10th November 2022(CNN) — Rumeysa Gelgi, the world's tallest living woman, recently boarded an airplane from her home country of Turkey to San Francisco.She has been a Guinness World Record celebrity since her teens, and holds records in several size-related categories, including the longest fingers on a living person and the longest back on a living female person.Like many people with Weaver syndrome, Gelgi uses mobility aids to get around, and a long flight would require special accommodation for her extraordinary frame.In an Instagram post a few weeks later, she shared photos from her trip aboard Turkish Airlines, which was made possible after the airlines removed several seats on the plane so Gelgi could rest comfortably on a stretcher during the 13-hour journey from Istanbul to California.Ristagno, who recently received the Open Doors Organization's Disability Access Professional Award for her work, described what kinds of global and structural efforts are underway to improve accessibility for all travelers."