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People Are Bringing Hospital Beds And Massage Tables Onto American Flights — And Asking To Check Them Free

View from the Wing·Gary Leff·29 days ago
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People are bringing hospital beds, massage tables, and wagons on American Airlines flights, and expecting to have them checked as luggage for free. Apparently passengers are seeking baggage fee waivers for items like this as ‘medical devices’ and the airline sent out an update to agents to make clear what counts – and what does not count – as an eligible medical device to fly free. Any ‘piece of equipment that assists a passenger in coping with the effects of his or her disability’ is a medical device, and to the extend that they assist them “to hear, see, communicate, maneuver, or perform other functions of daily life” they qualify for a bag fee waiver. But that does not include chiropractice tables! It does not include “[d]evices that can also be used recreationally” and it does not include… “lotion or soap”?…

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