Air travel and ME with ECV's

[BayouMickey]

My DW will be recieving her own ECV soon and we're planning on bringing it on our Nov trip.
We were told it's possible to do, but we're wondering if anyone has had experience with this and how it worked.
TIA

 

[SueM in MN]

Don't have time for a long reply right now, but if you look in the disABILITIES FAQs thread, one post in that thread is about air travel and one is about Magical Express. You can find that thread near the top of this board or follow the link in my signature.
The first post in that thread is an index that tells which post contains which information.

 

[BayouMickey]

I'm sorry sue but i must be overlooking something. I checked the FAQ before I posted this, and just double checked. I see post about renting on and offsite, bus procedures, etc. but I don't see anything related to traveling with and magical express. Please excuse if I'm not seeing something that is in plain site, but I just don't see it?

 

[Bete]

on page 2.

 

[SueM in MN]

on page 2.

And post 15 on page one is general air travel information

 

[BayouMickey]

Thank you, if it was a snake it would have bit me!
One thing that I don't see really explained is do they store the ECV in the hold or in cabin? and how soon is it availible upon arrival?
Thanks so much for bearing with me.

 

[peemagg]

I travel with mine. I ride it all the way to the gate and the airline then takes it down into the hold. I just hold back and are one of the last ones off and the scooter is there waiting for me. The airline also has me pre-board so that they have a little extra time to get my scooter down and loaded.

When I use ME, I just have them place it under the bus.

The whole thing of flying with the scooter is pretty painless. Your wife will have to be pulled off to seperate screening when going through security. They do that to check the scooter, but it isn't really that bad and doesn't take much more time than the other way.

 

[BayouMickey]

I travel with mine. I ride it all the way to the gate and the airline then takes it down into the hold. I just hold back and are one of the last ones off and the scooter is there waiting for me. The airline also has me pre-board so that they have a little extra time to get my scooter down and loaded.

When I use ME, I just have them place it under the bus.

The whole thing of flying with the scooter is pretty painless. Your wife will have to be pulled off to seperate screening when going through security. They do that to check the scooter, but it isn't really that bad and doesn't take much more time than the other way.

TY peemagg!
DW was happy to get this info. Normally we rent one while there, but now that she's getting her own she really wants to take hers (this also saves me a few hundred dollars).

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I have travelled with my own ECV.

I am able to ride it all the way down the boarding ramp to the airplane door. At that time I take the chargers and it's bag, toss it in the basket , and remove the basket, put it in a small tote bag, and carry it inside the plane.

I have had one time when I had to change planes (in ATL). I did check it through as I did not have far to travel in the Atlanta airport. It was moved for me.

At all flights I did walk up the ramp and took a seat near the boarding area dor, the EV was brought to me --- they had taken it to an elevator somewhere in ther terminal to bring it up from the aircraft.

I had copies some pages from the manual, and ended up with a two-sided sheet in a plastic cover, which I attach to the ECV. It shows four items. 1 - How to put it in or out of Freewheel; 2 - where tie-down points are; 3 - how to lock the tiller straight ahead; and 4 - How to raise and lower the tiller. I don't know if they look at it, but the information is there for them.

So far I have never had any problems. But before a trip I do take it to my shop and have them check it out, including the battery condition.