All airlines Asia Pacific
Air Tahiti
carried free.
- Advance notice
- Not published
- Powered wheelchair
- Not published
- Lithium, battery installed
- Not published
- Cost to carry
- Free
Fragments only. Air Tahiti publishes some assistance information but not a full mobility-aid policy. What is below is everything it actually states. Everything marked “not published” genuinely is — confirm it with the airline rather than assuming the international baseline applies.
Who to contact
Transcribed from the airline’s own pages, exactly as it labels them.
- PhoneFrench Polynesia — Air Tahiti head office switchboard, Tahiti-Faa'a airport (the only telephone number printed anywhere on airtahiti.com; there is no accessibility or reservations line)
- Online form
Air Tahiti publishes no disability desk, no special-assistance e-mail address, no TTY/relay and no reservations telephone number on its website — assistance must be requested through the booking agent/travel agency at the time of booking, or through the generic Contact us form. The only e-mail address printed on the site is the publishing manager's on the Imprint page (a commercial-department address, not an assistance channel), so it is not listed here. NOTE: www.airtahiti.com and www.airtahiti.pf are behind a Cloudflare bot wall that returned HTTP 403 to every route tried on 2026-07-29; every fact here comes from Internet Archive snapshots of Air Tahiti's own pages, dated in each source title.
Read it from the source
Powered wheelchairs & batteries
The part that goes wrong. Battery chemistry and watt-hours decide whether your chair flies, and the rules differ depending on whether the battery can be removed.
Not published. Air Tahiti's page covers wheelchairs generically and lists 'Wheelchair' among the medical equipment with conditions of acceptance, but the text supplied does not distinguish powered from manual, and states no battery rule.
Not published for mobility aids. The restricted-items page has a lithium table, but it is explicitly for "electronic devices and lithium batteries" (watches, laptops, power banks) and says nothing about wheelchairs.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
Not published; ICAO/IATA default applies — see global rules. The 100 Wh / 100-160 Wh / >160 Wh thresholds on Air Tahiti's restricted-items page govern consumer electronic devices, not mobility aids, and have deliberately not been imported here.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
Not published for a wheelchair battery removed into the cabin; ICAO/IATA default applies — see global rules.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
Not published for a spare wheelchair battery. The "max 10 spare batteries per passenger" line on the restricted-items page is the general consumer-electronics spare rule.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
No mobility-aid spare allowance published. Air Tahiti's general rule for electronic devices is up to 10 spare lithium batteries per passenger in carry-on only (and four spares for a portable oxygen concentrator) — neither figure is stated to apply to a wheelchair.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
Not published — Air Tahiti says nothing about removing a wheelchair battery.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
Not published — Air Tahiti's restricted-items page has no gel / AGM / sealed-lead-acid / dry-cell mobility-aid entry.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
No mobility-aid rule published. The nearest statement is a blanket line in the battery section of the restricted-items page: "Devices containing wet cells or batteries are strictly prohibited in the cabin and in the hold. They may however be registered as freight under certain conditions." Air Tahiti does not say whether that sentence is meant to cover a wet-battery wheelchair — ask before booking.
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
No mobility-aid rule. Generally: "Spare lithium batteries must be protected to prevent short circuits and carried in your carry-on baggage or on you."
Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
Not published for wheelchair batteries. Air Tahiti requires a prescription and a doctor's certificate for oxygen concentrators and syringes, and a photo/dimensions/fixing instructions for a seat-attached support device, but demands no battery paperwork.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18 Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13
No maximum powered-wheelchair dimensions published.
No weight limit published for a powered wheelchair.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
Not published.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
Air Tahiti publishes nothing at all about electric wheelchairs or their batteries. Because its aircraft are small turboprops and wheelchair users are barred from Beechcraft flights, contact the booking department before buying a ticket if you use a power chair.
Manual wheelchairs
Carried on most of the fleet, but not all of it: "Wheelchair users cannot travel on Beechcraft flights." Air Tahiti also requires an accompanying able-bodied adult if you cannot, unaided, fasten your seatbelt, eat or drink, understand and follow the safety instructions, or carry out any medical treatment your condition requires.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition — Air Tahiti (live page) (opens in a new tab) · read 2026-07-30
Not published — no in-cabin stowage of a folding manual wheelchair is described. On ATR flights cabin crew will help stow ordinary hand baggage in the overhead lockers; Twin Otter and Beechcraft flights have no cabin crew.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
No in-cabin wheelchair stowage space or closet size is described.
No maximum wheelchair dimensions published. Ordinary checked baggage is limited to L+W+H <158 cm (62 in) including wheels and handles, and the special-baggage page sends anything over 150 cm total to the Freight Service — neither is stated to be a wheelchair limit, so no device figure is recorded here.
Checked baggage allowance (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-07) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-08-07 Sports equipment and special baggage — medical equipment section (Internet Archive snapshot 2024-05-29) (opens in a new tab) · read 2024-05-29
No weight limit published for a wheelchair. The 23 kg figure on the checked-baggage page is the ordinary free allowance per passenger and Air Tahiti explicitly exempts the wheelchair from excess-baggage charges. Watch out, though: the special-baggage page (which lists "Medical equipment (syringes, medicines, wheelchair...)") says any baggage over 32 kg (71 lb) must be checked in with Air Tahiti's Freight Service instead. Air Tahiti does not say whether a wheelchair is exempt from that.
Checked baggage allowance (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-07) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-08-07 Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18 Sports equipment and special baggage — medical equipment section (Internet Archive snapshot 2024-05-29) (opens in a new tab) · read 2024-05-29
Not published — Air Tahiti says nothing about where a wheelchair is returned. It states only that you board first (priority boarding) and are asked to disembark after all other passengers.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
Air Tahiti's fleet is ATR 72/42, DHC-6 Twin Otter and Beechcraft. Wheelchair users are barred from Beechcraft flights entirely, and Twin Otter and Beechcraft flights carry no cabin crew.
Booking & cost
No advance-notice deadline published for a wheelchair. Air Tahiti says only: "At the booking stage, tell our agents about the nature of your disability and any special requirements you have (e.g. you need a wheelchair to get you to the aircraft...)." Its General Conditions of Carriage add that acceptance of a Passenger with Reduced Mobility "is subject to prior arrangements with Carrier", again with no deadline. The 72-working-hour deadline on the restricted-items page applies to oxygen concentrators, not mobility aids.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18 Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-11-13 General Conditions of Carriage — Article VII.3 (reduced-mobility acceptance) and Article XII (baggage liability, 17 SDR per kg) (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-05) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-08-05
"At the booking stage, tell our agents about the nature of your disability and any special requirements you have." A support or restraining device that must be attached to the seat needs authorisation from the relevant department, and Air Tahiti will ask for a photo of the device, its dimensions and attachment instructions. Present your invalidity card at check-in.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition — Air Tahiti (live page) (opens in a new tab) · read 2026-07-30
"If you are travelling with a wheelchair and exceed your baggage allowance, you are entitled to free excess baggage for your wheelchair."
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition — Air Tahiti (live page) (opens in a new tab) · read 2026-07-30
Not published — Air Tahiti does not say how many mobility devices are carried.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
Air Tahiti's General Conditions of Carriage apply the Warsaw Convention: liability for damage, delay or loss of checked baggage "shall be limited to 17 SDR per kg", and 332 SDR per passenger for cabin baggage. There is no mobility-aid carve-out, no full-value/ACAA-style waiver and no special-declaration option in the text, so a power chair is compensated by weight (25 kg = 425 SDR). Wording taken from the 5 Aug 2025 capture and repeated verbatim (17 DTS/kg) in the 15 Nov 2025 French capture.
On board
Not published — no on-board/aisle wheelchair is described on any Air Tahiti page. Twin Otter and Beechcraft flights carry no cabin crew.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
Not published — Air Tahiti says nothing about accessible lavatories on its ATR/Twin Otter/Beechcraft fleet.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · read 2025-03-18
On ATR flights cabin crew provide standard assistance including stowing hand baggage. On Twin Otter and Beechcraft flights there are no cabin crew at all, so blind passengers must be accompanied by an able-bodied adult and wheelchair users cannot travel on Beechcraft.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition — Air Tahiti (live page) (opens in a new tab) · read 2026-07-30
Priority boarding: "you can settle into your seat before the other passengers arrive", presenting yourself at the gate ahead of others; on arrival you are asked to wait until other passengers have disembarked. On ATR flights cabin crew help stow hand baggage in the lockers.
Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition — Air Tahiti (live page) (opens in a new tab) · read 2026-07-30
Fleet detail. Fleet is the binding constraint, and Air Tahiti says so in terms rather than in figures: wheelchair users cannot travel on Beechcraft flights at all, and Twin Otter and Beechcraft aircraft carry no cabin crew, so blind passengers need an able-bodied companion on those types. ATR flights carry cabin crew and standard assistance.
Worth knowing
Air Tahiti is the domestic French Polynesian carrier (ATR 72/42, Twin Otter, Beechcraft) and is a different company from Air Tahiti Nui. Two hard facts a wheelchair user needs. (1) "Wheelchair users cannot travel on Beechcraft flights" — an outright aircraft exclusion, repeated in the French original; and Twin Otter and Beechcraft flights have no cabin crew at all. (2) The chair itself is carried without excess-baggage charge. Beyond that the site is close to silent: the reduced-mobility page tells you to "read the conditions of acceptance of medical equipment" and lists "Wheelchair" among them, but the list items are dead text and the restricted-items page they point to has no wheelchair or mobility-aid entry whatsoever. There is therefore NO published rule on electric wheelchairs, battery types, watt-hour caps, spares, removal, gate delivery, aisle chairs or damage liability, and the 100/160 Wh and 10-spare figures on the restricted-items page are explicitly consumer-electronics rules and have not been imported. One blanket line does exist and may matter: "Devices containing wet cells or batteries are strictly prohibited in the cabin and in the hold. They may however be registered as freight under certain conditions." IMPORTANT: www.airtahiti.com and www.airtahiti.pf sit behind a Cloudflare bot wall (HTTP 403 to direct fetches, browser-verification page through the reader proxy, on 2026-07-29), so every fact here is taken from Internet Archive snapshots of Air Tahiti's own pages, dated 2024-05-29 to 2025-11-13 and named in each source title. A human with browser access should re-check the live pages, and in particular whether Air Tahiti has since published wheelchair battery conditions. FRESHNESS RE-CHECK, 29 July 2026: every route was retried live today — https/http, with and without www, airtahiti.com and airtahiti.pf, the /en/ and /fr/ paths, the reservation subdomain, the reader proxy with 25s and 40s render waits, two public CORS proxies and a direct browser-UA request. All returned Cloudflare 403 or 522, including /robots.txt, so THIS RECORD IS STILL ARCHIVE-ONLY. The Internet Archive holds no capture newer than the ones cited: /en/reduced-mobility ends at 18 Mar 2025, /fr/mobilite-reduite at 12 Dec 2024, /en/sports-equipment-special-baggage at 29 May 2024, /en/forbidden-restricted-items at 17 Jan 2025, /en/restricted-items at 13 Nov 2025 (CDX, limit=-8, no collapse). Treat every statement below as 1-2-year-old information and confirm with Air Tahiti before travelling. Nothing here is a hard numeric wheelchair cap, because Air Tahiti publishes none, so no stale figure had to be withdrawn. Two things were added on 29 July 2026 from captures the earlier pass had not read: the General Conditions of Carriage (17 SDR per kg / 332 SDR baggage liability, Warsaw regime, no mobility-aid exception; 5 Aug 2025 capture, repeated in the 15 Nov 2025 French capture) and the fleet page (3 Beechcraft King Air B200 and 1 Twin Otter still in service at 22 June 2025, so the Beechcraft exclusion still bites). The only Air Tahiti-owned host that answers live is the recruitment site carrieres.airtahiti.com (HTTP 200 on 2026-07-29, confirms the head office at Faa'a international airport, 98702 Fa'a'a) — it carries no policy or contact channel, so it has deliberately not been cited as a source. 2026-07-30: the live page was supplied by a human, replacing an archive-only record. The headline finding is a flat exclusion — "Wheelchair users cannot travel on Beechcraft flights" — which no other source in this dataset had captured. Air Tahiti still publishes no battery rule, no watt-hour figure, no chair dimensions and no weight limit; its 'Wheelchair' conditions-of-acceptance link was not part of the supplied text.
Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these.
- s1 Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-03-18) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-03-18
- s2 Restricted items (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-11-13) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-11-13
- s3 Special needs (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-09-12) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-09-12
- s4 Sports equipment and special baggage — medical equipment section (Internet Archive snapshot 2024-05-29) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2024-05-29
- s5 Imprint — head office address and telephone (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-05) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-08-05
- s6 Contact us — online request form (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-10-14) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-10-14
- s7 Checked baggage allowance (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-07) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-08-07
- s8 Passagers a mobilite reduite ou medicalises — French original (Internet Archive snapshot 2024-12-12) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2024-12-12
- s9 Forbidden and restricted items — landing page (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-01-17) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-01-17
- s10 General Conditions of Carriage — Article VII.3 (reduced-mobility acceptance) and Article XII (baggage liability, 17 SDR per kg) (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-05) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-08-05
- s11 Notre flotte / Our fleet — 10 ATR-72, 2 ATR-42, 1 Twin Otter, 3 Beechcraft King Air B200 (Internet Archive snapshot 2025-08-03) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2025-08-03
- s12 Passengers with reduced mobility or a medical condition — Air Tahiti (live page) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2026-07-30
Record quality
Record status partial · confidence medium · 12 official sources · 2 contacts · 16% of the fields this reference tracks are answered. Newest source read 30 July 2026, the day this page was built. What these mean.