Travelling with a broken wrist

[kestrelg]

12 days ago my wife broke her wrist and it is in plaster.
We are due to fly to Portugal on the 25th Sept and Thomsonfly won't give a clear answer as to whether they will let her board the plane. Has anyone any experience of this attitude and how did they resolve it

[abbie1977]

There shouldnt be any reason why they wouldnt let her fly at all. I have flown with a plaster on my wrist and on a seperate occassion one on my leg, although that was all before the security was stepped up. So unless they are viewing it as a security issue it should be absolutely fine.

[joggerjayne]

No reason not to fly.

Get a letter from you GP certifying that your wife is "fit to fly" and just tell Thomson ... It's okay, we've sorted it, we've got a "fit to fly" certificate.

[joggerjayne]

We've come back from skiing trips with all sorts of casts and bandages on each other (not me, touch wood).

Your wife is flying to Portugal, not crawling there.

[goosing]

my cousin went to majorca with her foot bound up the day after an op to remove a broken drawing pin from it (ouch) she had a fit to fly cert and even better was upgraded to a poolside room so she could "rest it while watching the children play"

[netibiza]

I flew with a broken shoulder last year, and BA were excessively kind. Only thing, I was not allowed to sit at emergency exits.

[kempie]

Many airlines operate a policy which mirrors advice given within the "Yellow Book", the common name for "Health Information for Overseas Travel" first issued in 1995 by the Department of Health as a companion to the already popular "Immunisation against Infectious Disease" (aka "Green Book").

"It is advisable to wait 24 hours after a plaster cast is applied before a flight of under two hours and 48 hours if the flight is longer (or bivalve the plaster)."

This advice is, of course, not relevant in the case of a cast applied 12 days previously.