Airlines/Wheelchair Batteries

[Marshall Mitchell]

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>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 :-(

Alaska always does that to me too.  Last time I had to wait in the eilse
chair for an hour in the San Fransico airport.  I should have sued.  No one
else does that but them.

Marshall Mitchell