Frances144 Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 Does anyone know if Loganair will accept you onboard to fly with a knee-to-toe full light weight plaster cast or is it only backslabs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasmie Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 If you can bend your knee and sit in a normal seat then it shouldn't be a problem. You can always phone the sumburgh information desk for advice 01950 461000 or phone the Loganair ADS staff 0871 700 2000 - should be answered by a human. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filskadacat Posted September 5, 2013 Report Share Posted September 5, 2013 Frances – don’t fly anywhere with a stookie! I was in Germany with kids at a world championship when my husband had his first heart attack. On the way out I had slipped at the end of the moving pavement in Schiphol and mangled my ankle. The very efficient German hospital X-rayed it, pronounced it to be merely a bad sprain and put on what they called an air cast – to about halfway up my calf. The next day I had to fly as an emergency from Stuttgart to Frankfurt and from Frankfurt to Edinburgh – both flights no more than 90 mins. When I finally reached Ninewells at 10pm and husband was still alive, I said they would have to get the cast off me as I couldn’t have him in intensive care and me unable to drive. After I assured them it wasn’t broken they agreed to take a saw to it; you should have seen my leg. My toes were proverbial cocktail sausages and completely purple, with it spreading up my foot. I got roundly ticked off by the A&E doctor for having ‘not told the airline I had a cast on’; well they didn't ask, I was wearing trousers and I caught the flight with 5 mins to go. He said I could have ended up in the bed next to my husband with my very own heart attack and that if you ever have to fly with a cast, you have to get them to saw through it and then hold it back together with sticking plaster – as it were - till you get to where you’re going. Apparently everyone ‘should know this’ – I’m not quite sure how! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted September 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Golly! They put a full plaster on and then cut it either side which is apparently what the airline agreed to in the end. I am home with a full set of pink tootsies showing and it was a bearable ordeal. Thank you for all your answers. I never knew a stookie was a plaster! Live and learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filskadacat Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 I never knew a stookie was a plaster! You're been how long in Shetland?Glad to hear you made it safely home with no purple bits. So now do you have to go to the GB to get replastered? Take care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted September 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 I've bees in Shetland nearly 20 years but to be fair, I've not seen many folk with plasters! I am not going up to GBH for re-plastering. I will stay like this for the next 6 weeks virtually immobile as I am not supposed to use my crutches much either (lower spine surgery frequently). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveh Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 I was interested to read this as I am due to have an achilles heel operation, at the end of next month, that will leave me in plaster from my foot to my knee. I am hoping that the op will be done in Lerwick but, if I have to go to Aberdeen, it looks like an uncomfortable ferry journey home for me, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 One of my family needed their achilles heel operated on and as far as I recall it was done here as day surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted September 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 Going home by ferry is 100% preferable than flying. The ferry terminals (correct me if I am wrong) both have wheelchairs you can use to get to the cabins.The ferry staff will bring you food to your cabin if you ask nicely (I did some research when I thought I was coming back on the boat). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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