07-08-2021
09:13 PM
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Yes, I'm talking about #2, an electric mobility scooter for disabled people who can't walk more than 50 feet. Specifically. the Solaz Transformer with a lithium-ion battery costing about $2000. If you drive it to the gate, it gets handled much less than checking it at the ticket counter. You don't need a manual wheelchair pusher You can drive it to connecting flights. You don't get stranded when the wheelchair and pusher don't arrive because they are severely understaffed. And you don't have to hunt the scooter down at your destination.
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07-08-2021
08:05 PM
The Air Carrier Access Act establishes a right for passengers to take their personal wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and walkers to the airport gate and the aircraft boarding door. This right to gate-check mobility equipment covers all devices, including electric wheelchairs. Gate-checked wheelchairs, scooters, and walkers must be returned in the jetway upon arrival, even when the passenger has a connecting flight. Doesn't this allow you to take your scooter to the gate in any US airport?
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07-08-2021
06:04 PM
Every time I call I get different answers! Can you drive your collapsible travel scooter to the gate and gate-check it? Or not? If not, how does it get to your destination airport?
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04-23-2021
09:11 AM
04-23-2021
09:11 AM
In case you missed it, there are vaccines that protect against that virus. And there is about a one in a million chance of contracting covid in an airplane. Why shouldn't a fully vaccinated heart failure patient be allowed the mask exemption in any case? The policy is a bit bizarre, if there are 120 people on a 160 passenger plane, not wearing a mask is fine for one passenger. If there are 121 people on the plane, the mask exemption is a deadly menace to all onboard.
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Double masking for anyone with even very mild respiratory problems will be impossible.
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04-22-2021
04:53 PM
04-22-2021
04:53 PM
It's not going to change, it's the DOT that makes this absurd policy. It's actually even worse than I first posted, once a flight reaches 50% occupancy, they reschedule passengers proactively. Also, it ignores vaccine status. I'll probably tough it out and if I can't breathe, I'll just rip off the mask and let the pilot decide whether to let me keep the mask off, give supplemental oxygen or make an emergency landing.
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04-22-2021
03:43 PM
04-22-2021
03:43 PM
If you cannot wear a mask because of breathlessness caused by heart failure, SWA graciously allows you to fly without a mask: IF THERE IS NO ONE ELSE ON THE FLIGHT WITH A MASK EXEMPTION AND THE FLIGHT IS LESS THAN 75% FULL. Otherwise, you WILL BE DENIED BOARDING and rescheduled until a flight that is less than 75% full and has no one else with a medical exemption on board, no matter how long that takes hours or days. The solution is to buy a portable oxygen concentrator that can deliver oxygen under your mask for $4000, or wear a mask that looks compliant but fits so poorly that it doesn't restrict your breathing at all or just wing it and have the flight attendants bring you bottled oxygen if you become breathless due to the mask. After a few emergency landings, the airlines might be able to get the FAA/CDC to change their policy or if this is a SWA policy they might change it.
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You can't travel with a two-year-old who can't wear a mask. Thank you Uncle Joe for your total lack of consideration for families with toddlers. He could issue an executive order ordering the FAA/CC to follow WHO guidelines and not require masks for 2 to 5 year olds.
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04-22-2021
03:26 PM
The solution is for everyone with a disability to just get a wheelchair. If you have a wheelchair, you don't get idiots complaining about your invisible disability. My wife had a stroke and could walk slowly with a cane. At LAX we tried coming up the disabled elevator and going to the front of the line. We were lucky we weren't lynched by an angry mob waiting for hours. My wife just fell to the floor crying uncontrollably. The checkpoint agents brought her a wheelchair and that was the last time we tried we tried for minimal assistance. You either get no help at all or you get a wheelchair.
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07-24-2018
03:16 PM
07-24-2018
03:16 PM
what about US customers on vacation? I'm on a cruise in Europe and I want to book a cheap Hawaii fare from LAX, Can't access SWA to book JAX to LAX. Or even check the price. Since SWA isn't flying to Hawaii until 2019. Why block entire continents when all that is needed is to restrict booking to SWA US customers. IF I knew how to spoof an IP address I could login. CAlling is useless, $4.95 a minute from ship.
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