What diseases require the doctor´s approval to fly?
The properly filled Medical Clearance Form may be required by our ground or cabin staff in the following cases:
- Heart attack (within 21 days of intended travel).
- Stroke (within 10 days of intended travel.
- Infants – newborn babies (within 7 days of birth).
- Decompression sickness.
- Pneumothorax (within 14 days of resolution).
- Requirement for stretcher.
- Inability to sit upright.
- Head injury (within 14 days of intended travel).
- Fractures (except for uncomplicated fractures of upper limbs and fingers of upper limbs).
- Plaster cast (except for plaster cast on upper limbs and fingers of upper limbs).
- Deep vein thrombosis.
- Psychiatric disorder (must travel with an escort sitting in adjacent seat).
- Any serious or acute infectious disease (incl. chickenpox).