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one word of advice - you get much better service and attention if you go on your own. airline attendants swarm all around you and do every last thing for you - but somehow, if you have someone with you , that someone is expected to do everything that a half dozen attendants would have done for you. ANd then you don't get the little extras either, like preferential seating on the plane - which may sound like a luxury, but on a long flight, extra space for stretching your legs is a must for the pwp. ANd when you get off that plane, absolutely exhausted from the flight, it is not just a luxury to be whizzed to the front of the customs and immigration lines! People are wonderful - if they think you are totally helpless. If they see you have the slightest bit of help, you are likely to be totally abandoned speaking from bitter experience - of both situations hilary blue janet paterson wrote: > > hi all > > on Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:19:01 +0200, bern wrote: > > > >Hello all, I am now back in Austria after a week in the UK. I was met at > >the airports and pushed in a wheel chair right to the plane and then to > >the lugage after arrival. I hadtwo blocks or freezes and shook all > >over.People were very kind and helpful. The stewardesses were great and > >got me seated and comfortable. What impressed me most was that I was > >smiled at. Yes smiles were for me not the usual stares it seems as if > >the awareness of Parkinson's is more advanced now. By the way the > >airoplane line was the Lufthansa. and no I have no financial dealings > >with them. Bern......Peace. > >http://members.teleweb.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html > > that is wonderful news, bern! > and echoes my experience recently on a canada/usa trip > [recounted in my post "knock knock"] > ...........v