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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am appalled by the people who requested wheelchairs. You are trying to carry too much stuff with you. [/quote]

Excuse me, but I have two toddlers who would take about 3 hours to get from the curb-side check-in to security and then out to the gate if we allowed them to walk.  My wife is visually impaired and a transplant patient so has one carry-on that has medical supplies from medications, to visual aids, etc.  She has a purse.  We have one carryon that is exclusively things to keep our children entertained and quiet on the trip and we have one carryon that has diapers, snacks and now spare clothes for the one that is potty-trained but still has accidents.  Four bags and two children.  What do you suggest that we give up?

We only do this domestically and frankly, I have yet to approach the wheelchair stations in any of about 8 airports that I've been in and have less than a dozen chairs sitting there.  You need to spend more time focusing on yourself than on others.  Additionally, airport staff has said that it isn't a problem to request a wheelchair to meet us at the gate for the children.

[quote]OP here - thank you, that's very helpful. So you used the wheelchair instead of the stroller to transport the kids around the airport?[/quote]

Sorry that I didn't respond a couple of months ago, but somehow I missed the rest of this thread.

Yes, we do.  I can put the twins in the wheelchair and wheel them out.  It's easier to get a wheelchair through security than a stroller.  The stroller has to be folded up and put through the scanner and we caused a backup the one time we brought our BJ City Select double as it was too big to fit in the machine, so I had to take it apart so that it could be scanned and then put it back together on the other side and it held up one of the security lines.  The wheelchair, they just get out, walk through the line and they push the wheelchair around.  I leave the wheelchair at the gate with other wheelchairs.  [/quote]

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