First Look: LIVE DEMO of Air4All Airplane Wheelchair Securement Space

[@Burncity10]

I hope its all the airlines!! 👨‍🦽🇦🇺🇯🇵🇵🇭

[@DeborahDoughty-e3h]

And about time too! Air travel is such a traumatic and often embarrassing time for a disabled wheelchair user. Well done, keep up the good work. Although, that is a rather small powered wheelchair. My husband's chair is huge, it would stick out a lot more than that. It's wider and higher too! Would also have been better to actually see it positioning into an actual cabin, where there is far less room for maneuver!!!

[@joshgoldstein1568]

Looks great with a simple Quickie PWC with a low back but what about a CRT grade Permobil F5/Quantum/etc?

[@VictorVoyageandTravel]

Such a great idea. Still the challenge of not using an aisle chair to access the seat, but you are in the good direction!

[@thle676]

A great idea, i could fly everywhere, thanks

[@davidleakenneyphotography]

Looks fantastic, been hoping for someting like this for a long time! Just hoping that there will be enough space for a mid wheel powered chair as they tend to be a bit longer.

[@TheWonderman1964]

For paraplegic , a bed would be the best for a long flight. Risk of blood clot is a major concern while sitting for more than 5 hours.

[@janescott7605]

Wow! It would fab to take our chairs into the cabin. Driving challenges of the day aside, I'm wondering how there will be enough space to manoeuvre in a plane. In this demo you have A LOT of space around you.

[@L.Smith.]

As this is demo im sure they will take into consideration that wheelchairs also have there own headrests so something they could remove from with everything else. They shouls also demo this with a range of electric wheelchairs especially bigger ones

[@StewartMidwinter]

That's a very small wheelchair you are using. Much smaller than what many people have. I wonder what their size limits are? Also, you're sitting very upright. Does this system allow for the chair back to recline at all?

[@jacquelyns9709]

Where is the passenger seat belt for takeoff and landing. How many such seats would be on each plane? Is the seat next to this space for a regular passenger, since seat cushions were stored under it? I wonder how much maneuvering room would there actually be on a real plane? How much room would flight attendants have to prepare the seat? How heavy are the components. Will females and shorter men be able to transform the seating area? How will wheelchair users access the toilet? A lot more work needs to be done on this prototype before it is truly ready for use. What about manual wheelchair and rollator users?

[@davidmartinezzamora2124]

Hay alguna fecha para comercialización y sobre qué aerolíneas estaría montado?

[@TheMattsterling]

What I see here is progress, but not a scalable solution. I doubt hundreds of hurried Delta passengers will be willing to wait for the time it takes to convert the chair. Add on the time it would take to park/lock. I know this wasn't your chair, but I lived in NYC for many years and even the lock system on the bus wasn't ideal. The wheelchair passenger then becomes the focus of an already tense traveling public. They should lose the closet or reconfigure the galley to make a more open space with a safety bar or something that drops overhead like a rollercoaster given the turbulence issues these days.

[@BenLeitch]

I'd like to see it work in a real world setting not a mocked up stage. I appreciate the thought and effort but I don't see it being practical. They would be giving up the space of 2 or more seats for one chair.