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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a legitimate health matter and that’s a long flight.  I’m sorry you even entertain the notion of being considered a “diva” for being concerned about your physical well-being on a long-haul flight at 31 weeks pregnant.  I would ask. [/quote]

How is it a legitimate health matter? What about business class is healthier?[/quote]
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I would be annoyed as a manager/owner and would lose respect for you (and I have flown pregnant many times for work). Use your own points or pay the difference [/quote]
Were your flights over 6 hours and international at 31/32 weeks pregnant? If not it’s apples and oranges, and you are the type of female manager that all women should strive to avoid. No pregnant woman should be expected to travel over 6 hours internationally at that stage of pregnancy. OP, your doctor will gladly excuse you from this type of flight at that stage of pregnancy. [/quote]

The problem is that a baby born at that point is viable and very expensive. Would the OP’s regular health insurance or a travel medical policy purchased while the OP was pregnant do a good job of covering the services required by a premie born at 31 weeks? Maybe the OP would have to try to sue the employer to get the employer to pay $100,000 or more in non-U.S. preemie care bills. (And, even in single-payer countries, preemie care bills for the baby of a business visitor could be very high.)  Or, $10 million for lifetime care for a preemie who’s permanently disabled as a result of being born on a plane during a work-related business trip.

So, actually, it’s idiotic of the employer to send the employee on that trip, if the employer realizes the OP is pregnant. The employer is just asking for a complicated lawsuit. [/quote]

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