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Traveling by air with your CPAP?

Posted by egrandi on July 15, 2005 at 13:21:49:

A CPAP user traveling by air from Duluth, MN to Portland, ME contacted the ASAA to advise us that yesterday (07/14/05) the TAS in Duluth did not allow him to carry on his CPAP machine to the aircraft.

He was advised that a new TAS regulation is in effect that states that if a carry-on item has any opaque parts in it when goes through the x-ray that it cannot be carried on.

Needless to say he checked the item and it was damaged in transit.

We contacted the TAS screening persons with disabilities program today to find when the change in standard operating procedures (SOP) had changed. We were told that a changed had occurred in April of 2005. We were also told the TAS is currently reviewing this change in SOP particularly as it relates to CPAP devices, due to the number of a complaints they had received.

We expect to hear from the TAS next week and we will post what we learn.

If you have any problems traveling by air with your CPAP device, please let me know by writing to the ASAA.

Edward Grandi
Executive Director
American Sleep Apnea Association


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