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Air Travel And POCs
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Please share any information you have regarding air travel and portable oxygen concentrators (poc). I alerted the airline’s accessibility center, responded to their questions, requested a wheelchair at the airport and provided my doctor with the necessary form to complete
It’s important that your poc is on the list of acceptable ones and that you have the amount of available oxygen for the trip. For a 5 or 5 1/2 hour flight I was informed I’d need 9 or 9 1/2 hours of oxygen at my rate (2… read more

posted October 28, 2018
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A MyCOPDTeam Member

Thanks, Bunny.

posted October 31, 2018
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Hi Git - I have a Respironics
Mini Simply Go - a poc that is approved by the airlines.

posted October 30, 2018
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Hi Bunny,What type of POC do you have?

posted October 30, 2018
A MyCOPDTeam Member

I had POV and the batteries would not hold a charge had to return the whole thing

posted October 29, 2018
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Thanks, Jean!

posted October 28, 2018

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