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Josh Grisdale replied to the discussion Wheelchair damage on flights reporting in the forum Flying with a Disability 3 years ago
Wheelchair damage on flights reporting
Great way to rephrase that – that certainly wouldn’t have been acceptable!
I’m not sure about storage. I think that on large planes they are actually put in a crate, but am not sure. For smaller planes they certainly are not. I have had to pass off my chair with it’s back in a reclined position to fit in the underbelly, and have been…
schroth-sensei replied to the discussion Wheelchair damage on flights reporting in the forum Flying with a Disability 3 years ago
Wheelchair damage on flights reporting
My ’08 & ’10 flights to Japan I used a manual wheelchair, and luckily the stewardess told us to take all of the removable parts off and put them with our carry-on otherwise they would get lost. So, we did. I’m not sure how, or if, they strapped the rest of the chair down somehow but it seems that there were more scratches on the wheel…
tabifolk started the discussion Wheelchair damage on flights reporting in the forum Flying with a Disability 3 years ago
Wheelchair damage on flights reporting
Since they started reporting, the numbers of wheelchairs and scooters damaged are way to high. And this was during covid!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/06/07/wheelchair-scooter-damage-airplane-flights/
What have your experiences been?
Do other countries require reporting?
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