All Wheels Up

Current regulations prohibit passengers from sitting in their own wheelchairs on commercial flights. Why can’t passengers use their own onboard?

Airplanes are currently required to use seats that can withstand forces 16 times greater than the force of gravity, or 16 Gs. A system built by Q'Straint, a wheelchair securement company based in Florida, had recently passed a test exposing it to 20 Gs. When the founder of All Wheels up discovered this, she got in touch with Q'Straint to ask whether the company was working on airplane-specific systems. It was not. She also contacted the Federal Aviation Administration and was told that the agency didn't have the funding to test the restraints. So, she started All Wheels Up, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding and conducting the initial research into wheelchair-accessible air travel.

Please join me in supporting the mission of wheelchair-accessible air travel! 

Sources:  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/10/786559969/wheelchairs-on-planes-why-cant-passengers-use-their-own-onboard?fbclid=IwAR15gzE8Z2TuiyfBdnJRWsHNIYFujBIIdH8IMMs61TNYmTmpZjy0xX0Wv0g

https://www.allwheelsup.org