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How many flights have you taken? Would you take more if flying was more accessible?
https://wheelchairtravel.org/how-many-flights-average-person-take-in-their-lifetime/
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How Many Flights Does the Average Person Take in Their Lifetime? - Wheelchair Travel
How often do Americans fly and how many flights do they take in a lifetime on average? This estimate is derived from publicly available data.
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Since 1999, I’ve taken about one round-trip flight a year.
Don’t be jealous, but I’ve only one major damage to my chair in that time. One of my footrests got bashed in on an LAX-JFK flight in 2004. United paid for it without any resistance.
I did think I lost my joystick cover on an United LAX-MCO flight in 2021. I had to call a certain… Read more- View 1 reply
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Since I started using mobility devices late 2015, first a small segway and then a wheelchair with power assist, I’ve taken a plane 17 times and had my device damaged twice:
– In 2017, from Barcelona to Rome my segway got broken. It still worked, but drove wobbly and had the handle and other parts partially broken. The company, Alitalia, didn’t…
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