Airlines/Wheelchair Batteries

[Dennis Lang]

I have a Invocare 9000 with gel cell batteries. I have mainly flown on 
American & Alaska. On American, they did not remove my batteries from 
their case but did remove them from the power wc. On Alaska not only did 
they remove them from the chair but also removed them from their case and 
took apart the wries!! This inspite of my making sure everybody knew that 
they were gel cell. Every airline has different policies :-(

Dennis Lang


On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Karen Ozmun wrote:

> 
> is there anyone out there with direct experience with the airlines on the
> issue of batteries in a power wheelchair during flights?  could you leave
> your regular batteries in the power chair?  did the airline require that
> the standard batteries be removed? do different airlines have different
> practices?  karen
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