Reason to carry-on your xpap

[BlackSpinner]

This very effectively illustrates why you should never put your cpap machine in your luggage.

new suitcase. One direct flight.

[Cardsfan]

What the heck happened to it?
Is that yours?

[BlackSpinner]

What the heck happened to it?
Is that yours?

No not mine - local news.

(Though my mother's once had tire marks all over hers)

[Goofproof]

What the heck happened to it?
Is that yours?

No not mine - local news.

(Though my mother's once had tire marks all over hers)

That's what they get for flying Gorilla Air, but the rates are good, and the cages are nice. Jim

[Okie bipap]

Back when I was traveling a lot, I always used a hard side suit case and put a two inch wide multi-colored strap around it. When I got to Cedar Rapids one day, the only thing that kept all of my clothes from falling out was that strap. Obviously it had either been dropped a great distance, got run over by a piece of equipment at the airport. Of course the air line denied doing any damage to my bag, but they issued me two checks the next day to pay for a new suitcase. They had to write two checks because they could not write a check for more than $100 and the new suitcase cost around $165. They now own one badly banged up hard side suitcase.

[D.H.]

Even if you don't have to worry about damage, you still have to worry about loss.

[Taxmantoo]

Hey look, they're throwing guitars out there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

[Stormynights]

I once spent a week in California and never saw my clothes until 3 days after I got home.

[tlohse]

Holy hyperbole that is bad. Most TSA should recognize a CPAP as a carry on and won't charge anything extra.

[kteague]

Holy (Holey) Crap! I don't fly often, but my machine stays with me. So conditioned to never making an exception that I'm getting ready to take a road trip, and had to remind myself it's ok to put it in my suitcase in the trunk. Thanks for the reinforcement about keeping CPAPs a carry-on.

[englandsf]

The FAA forbids airlines from separating you from any medical equipment and trying to count it towards baggage allowance. International flights are less certain but if you speak up you should be OK.

[D.H.]

The FAA forbids airlines from separating you from any medical equipment and trying to count it towards baggage allowance. International flights are less certain but if you speak up you should be OK.

International flights starting or finishing in the U.S. should be OK. Ditto for most other developed countries. It's the more primitive countries that you have to worry about. Also, some countries have first world conditions in some parts of the country and third world conditions in other parts.

[Krelvin]

International flights starting or finishing in the U.S. should be OK. Ditto for most other developed countries. It's the more primitive countries that you have to worry about. Also, some countries have first world conditions in some parts of the country and third world conditions in other parts.

The point is you should check and not blindly assume. My uncle flew from the US to the UK last year but on the flight from the UK to Greece and from there to France and back to the UK that rule did not apply.

[chunkyfrog]

If you can afford airfare, maybe you deserve better.
For your extra bucks, you get 16.5" wide seats, and so little legroom that
there is an EPIDEMIC of dangerous/deadly thromboses among air passengers.
No thank you; I think I'll drive--or stay home.

[BlackSpinner]

The FAA forbids airlines from separating you from any medical equipment and trying to count it towards baggage allowance. International flights are less certain but if you speak up you should be OK.

The final say will always be the flight crew. If you fly small planes to obscure places there may be no room for a massive carry on. The flight crew are responsible for safety and what they say goes or you don't fly.

Even on regular planes, if it is busy, use the medical excuse to board first.