My child is severely disabled with their own wheelchair. Air travel.?
My daughter must have her own wheelchair. It needs support cord and control of standing posture. She needs to have his diaper changed by lying on the floor (bed). You do not know what the best way is to arrange air travel. ideas how to organize it? The airlines do not allow the child to remain in his wheelchair. then it should be conducted to his seat. they do not allow the wheelchair to the aircraft. etc.
I think you'd better ask on a forum for disabled users of a generally very similar. I'm surprised they did not allow him to use the wheelchair running on air - I saw a child with disabilities had pushed to Stansted in a wheelchair who was obviously his own, not a single generic airport. But the paths of the planes are simply too narrow for a standard wheelchair to fit. The little girl I saw then been moved to a small airport close chair, and two airport employees took the chair with her in it carefully to back up the stairs. I guess it had to be raised in the aircraft seat. His chair was put in the baggage compartment. It was a bog standard Ryanair flight. I really recommend you ring the airline you plan and talk to them. They were very helpful when we had to fly and my daughter was on crutches, and the normal rules are bent when possible (for example, my daughter crutches were technically too long to be allowed as hand luggage and they simply ignored the rule.) I would also suggest you contact a charity that arranges special tours for children very sick - they should be able to say that airlines can take the children who need lots of special assistance. Good luck!
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