wheelair

Coverage & gaps

What this dataset knows, and — more usefully — what it does not.

By region

Airlines and research coverage by region
RegionAirlinesResearchedAverage field coverage
Europe13613648%
Asia Pacific11511555%
Africa424236%
Latin America & Caribbean343449%
Middle East232343%
North America222252%

Airlines whose own pages could not be read

None — every passenger airline on the IATA list has been read at least once.

Airlines that publish almost nothing

All 85 of these carriers were read, and publish so little about mobility aids that the record is mostly honest blanks. Treat a blank as “you must phone them”, not as “anything goes”.

Records built only from archived snapshots

The live site was unreachable (bot walls, outages, geo-blocks), so these rest on Internet Archive captures of the airline’s own pages. The snapshot date is shown on every source. Verify before you rely on them.

Are the sources still there?

Every cited URL is re-tested periodically. A sourced dataset quietly becomes an unsourced one when its links rot, so this number is published rather than assumed.

URLsStatus
2311resolve normally
454refuse automated requests (a bot wall, not a broken link — they open fine in a browser)
74could not be reached from our checker at all — mostly geo-blocked or intermittently offline sites
9returned a server error at the time of checking

2848 cited URLs in total — none of them dead. A “blocked” result is normal: most airline sites refuse anything that is not a real browser, which is exactly why the research pipeline needs a JavaScript-rendering fetch to read them at all.

Partial and silent carriers

69 airlines have a working website that says little or nothing about carrying a passenger’s own wheelchair. That silence is itself the finding, and it is recorded rather than papered over.