Comments on: Flying with a Wheelchair: Choosing an Airline http://www.travelogger.net/tips/flying-with-a-wheelchair-choosing-an-airline/ We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kim http://www.travelogger.net/tips/flying-with-a-wheelchair-choosing-an-airline/comment-page-1/#comment-7688 Kim Mon, 19 May 2008 01:17:36 +0000 http://www.travelogger.net/tips/flying-with-a-wheelchair-choosing-an-airline/#comment-7688 I'm a wheelchair user who has traveled quite a bit. It is against FAA regulations to allow someone to stay in their wheelchair and have it secured on a flight. It woudl just be too unsafe. There is one compnay that has that option but you have to pay for a private plane. Wheelchairs are loaded like regular luggage, and I've never had an issue with this. Also, if there is room and you request it your wheelchair can be kept in the cabin's closet if it can break down small enough to fit. If the plane isn't connected by a bridge to the airport, most airports have AirBridges (lifts) to get you onto the plane. You transfer onto an asile chair just like you would to get on the plane before you are put onto the lift and a worker operates it while another stays on it with you and gets you to your seat. NO staff will carry you. There are rules against this in case they are injured, or they injure you. They will help you out if you need it, but not with lifting. Persons with disabilities are pre-boarded ahead of everyone else. This way it's easier for everyone involved because there is more roomon the plane to move around and tings run more smoothly. You are also the last off the plane for the same reason. People are waiting for you when you land with an asile chair and your wheelchair is waiting outside the plane. I’m a wheelchair user who has traveled quite a bit. It is against FAA regulations to allow someone to stay in their wheelchair and have it secured on a flight. It woudl just be too unsafe. There is one compnay that has that option but you have to pay for a private plane. Wheelchairs are loaded like regular luggage, and I’ve never had an issue with this. Also, if there is room and you request it your wheelchair can be kept in the cabin’s closet if it can break down small enough to fit.

If the plane isn’t connected by a bridge to the airport, most airports have AirBridges (lifts) to get you onto the plane. You transfer onto an asile chair just like you would to get on the plane before you are put onto the lift and a worker operates it while another stays on it with you and gets you to your seat. NO staff will carry you. There are rules against this in case they are injured, or they injure you. They will help you out if you need it, but not with lifting.

Persons with disabilities are pre-boarded ahead of everyone else. This way it’s easier for everyone involved because there is more roomon the plane to move around and tings run more smoothly. You are also the last off the plane for the same reason. People are waiting for you when you land with an asile chair and your wheelchair is waiting outside the plane.

]]> By:   Flying in a Wheelchair: Booking Reminders by Travelogger http://www.travelogger.net/tips/flying-with-a-wheelchair-choosing-an-airline/comment-page-1/#comment-346   Flying in a Wheelchair: Booking Reminders by Travelogger Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:31:39 +0000 http://www.travelogger.net/tips/flying-with-a-wheelchair-choosing-an-airline/#comment-346 [...] you have chosen an airline it is time to book your flight. As always the number one tip when booking a flight is to book it [...] [...] you have chosen an airline it is time to book your flight. As always the number one tip when booking a flight is to book it [...]

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