Air travel with a case of pediasure?

[fenfur]

Wow...you have gotten some excellent advice. The only other thing I would offer is to let your airline know ahead of time. There are notes sections on your reservations on their computer. Call them now and let them know you will be checking medical supplies and then tell them again when you confirm your flight the day before, and obviously when you are checking in. Reiterate to them how important the supplies are to your special needs son. If anything were to be misplaced you could let the airline know that you gave them advanced notice, notice the day before and notice when you checked in and that the formula is medically necessary and they need to expedite finding it or replacing and delivering it by the end of the business day. If you have alerted them (multiple times) and something were to happen, I am sure they would bend over backwards to get it resolved right away.

~Elisa

Thanks, I'll remember to do that once I book our flight. Here's to hoping Southwest has decent rates on their release on Friday.

 

[shoes99]

My sister only carried her pump, charger and 6 cans on the plane. She had her distributor ship a case to our hotel. When we checked into the Marriott Grande Vista, the case was waiting for us.

 

[Ms_Butterfly]

Just be sure your airline is one that doesn't count checked medical supplies towards the baggage limit. I'm not sure which ones don't, but I know Delta doesn't, JetBlue doesn't, and United changed their rule to allow "medical devices" - not sure if they'd give you a hard time with supplies instead of a device (some of those airline agents can be real persnickety, as I'm sure you know!). Not sure about the other airlines.

 

[pumpkinboy]

Pumpkin boy- Thanks for the thought of packing his extra mic-key button on carry on, I would have assumed to just pack it into checked with everything else, d'oh.

I usually pack two: one in the Med Bag (carry-on) and one in the checked luggage (supplies box). Though we have never needed to change DS's MIC-key button on vacation, I take grat comfort knowing that we have two spares in case we need them.

OT: re g-tubes; isn't it sweet how the g-tube is called a "MIC-key" while the competing device is a "Mini" . As a Disney geek, I have always found that amusing.

 

[pumpkinboy]

Thanks, I'll remember to do that once I book our flight. Here's to hoping Southwest has decent rates on their release on Friday.

Here's hoping SouthWest has some good fares for you. In case you're disappointed in SWA when they release, I plugged your dates into the search engine Kayak.com, and am finding a non-stop LAX-MCO for $339 per person, round-trip, and a one-stop (Denver) ONT-MCO for $345, both on United. In my experience, for trans-continental flights, these are pretty decent fares, and possible fall-backs.

Another advantage to taking an airline other than SWA is DME resort check-in; United and Delta both do resort check-in on the return, so you can check your bags in the lobby ar POR and just bring your carry-ons with you on the DME bus back to the Airport.

Good luck!

 

[fenfur]

Here's hoping SouthWest has some good fares for you. In case you're disappointed in SWA when they release, I plugged your dates into the search engine Kayak.com, and am finding a non-stop LAX-MCO for $339 per person, round-trip, and a one-stop (Denver) ONT-MCO for $345, both on United. In my experience, for trans-continental flights, these are pretty decent fares, and possible fall-backs.

Another advantage to taking an airline other than SWA is DME resort check-in; United and Delta both do resort check-in on the return, so you can check your bags in the lobby ar POR and just bring your carry-ons with you on the DME bus back to the Airport.

Good luck!

Ahhhh But Continental has a flight out of San Diego for $277 with taxes, with a stop in Texas and since we are in SOuth County it wouldn't be too bad to drive down there, about 1 1/2 hour (1 hour to LAX, 1 hour to Ont, 15 min to JWA) Too bad JWA is always SOOOOO expensive.

 

[fenfur]

Ok, we booked our flights with Jet Blue. So before I call, does anyone have any experience with Jet Blue. if it came down to it we bought 5 seats (cross country travel with a lap infant is NOT gonna happen) and Jet Blue still allows 2 checked bags per person so we could, if needed, use a checked bag allotment for the case of kindercal.

 

[Ms_Butterfly]

I've flown JetBlue a few times. Last time I went (Feb.) I declared one bag as medical supplies, since it was and I had three bags (instead of my usual two). I had no problems about the bags on either leg of the round-trip. My Ensure bottles were packed in my suitcase (inside Ziploc bags, though I've never had an Ensure bottle break on any flight). My third checked bag was a small duffel and inside it one of the items was a cardboard box with foil packages of water in it (doggy water for my service dog, since we were going on a cruise and I didn't want her drinking ship water or Mexican water) - those made it through fine, as well.