Originally Posted by
satman40
Tell them you need a wheel chair, they will not question you...
But beware that the wheelchair handling isn't always the best.
Last fall my wife was hurt just before our flight home and needed a chair. Shanghai, fine. Los Angeles--we had to squawk because the wheelchairs went with the pushers--and they were going to leave her at the gate for hours without a chair. The pusher made some calls and finally managed to scare up another chair for her to use while she was at the gate. (Without it a trip to the bathroom would have been a *VERY* painful experience for her.)