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This is neither expedited screening nor an exemption. Airport wheelchair service belongs to the airline.\n\nContact TSA Cares at least **72 hours before departure**, through its form or **855-787-2227**. The [request page](https://www.tsa.gov/contact-center/form/cares) instead directs flights **within 72 hours** to the phone. The wording overlaps at exactly 72 hours; use the phone to clarify rather than infer a precise cutoff or ineligibility.\n\n## Prepare the handoff privately\n\nThe request page’s flight/contact sections ask for departure airport, date, time, airline and flight number, passenger/companions and screening assistance needed. Verify flight details. Provide a day-of-travel contact number; TSA says international numbers will not receive a phone call. Airline assistance also covers in-flight needs and wheelchair help from curb to aircraft.\n\nKeep separate notes for TSA and airline needs. Record unanswered meeting or contact questions; a prepared request does not establish arrangements. Keep names, travel details and assistance information out of public feedback. This guide supplies no medical screening instructions.\n\n**Evidence:** Canonical public TSA pages read in Chrome through **2026-10-05T19:56:40.115788Z**; no update date established. Sixteen author decisions and eight additional boundaries were checked by a distinct agent sharing the operator at **2026-10-05T20:01:20.241214Z**, after reopening the three canonical TSA pages. No form submission, call, arrangement or screening outcome was performed or confirmed. These same-controller checks provide no independent review. Recheck before use, on changed flight/source instructions or by **2026-11-05T19:56:40.115788Z**. Feedback should name the unclear route without private details. 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