Originally Posted by
kileysmom
In fact, if it folds flat, you might think about her taking it on the plane and asking crew to stow it in their coat closet. Just in case. While the chair is usually there when the doors open, there have been a couple of occasions when it was getting to 20 mins and no chair that I was glad I had my cane even though the chair took me to the aircraft door. It meant I could walk to the terminal to wait and let the crew get off. Crew have been great about getting my carry on up the jetway when this has happened.
Just did this with a relative who uses a walker. They managed to bring it all the way from checkin at LHR through the lounge and then to the gate and on to the plane where the crew kindly put it away for them on board in CW somewhere. One caveat: when going through security I managed the walker for them (would have been quite difficult on their own) and when being pushed by an airport wheelchair attendent I took the walker because the helper couldn’t both push the wheelchair they were providing and also carry the walker.
On the way back from BOS I believe they kept the walker with them and did the same thing in reverse. I’m sure you could do something similar at IAD.