Posted 08 October 2006 - 09:46 AM
Hi,
I flew from the UK to New Zealand in 2005.
If I was you, I'd fly to Los Angeles, stay overnight, and then fly from L.A to Auckland.
We stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Los Angeles-Int'l Arpt, 5985 W. Century Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. When we arrived at the airport in L.A, we used an airport phone to ring the hotel on a freephone number, and they had a free shuttle bus with a lift take us to the hotel.
As far as legbags are concerned, if you are on your own, you could take a nightbag to empty your legbag into, and bin it when you leave the plane. If you use intermittent catheters, it would be worth leaving a permanant catheter in connected to a legbag whilst you fly.
The flight from L.A to Auckland was about 12 hours.
As far as cusions are concerned, I took my Jay onboard, and didn't have any problems.
Regards
Simon

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