Does that mean that you need to make it down the stairs on your own?! What if someone is genuinely in a wheelchair and not ambulatory?
If you simply cannot get down stairs, and there is not lift available, the airport will have you carried down - and SXM does this well.
A related problem I have seen and worried about, is when someone who is not really capable of handling egress on own, tries it anyway when no help seems available - especially if it is raining and you need to get down stairs or ramp. I now have seen this happen twice when passengers had to intervene and insist that airline/airport personnel stop someone from exiting until they received proper assistance.
