很好，刚好要用。父亲马上来美，飞友又没有找到，及时雨。

Thanks for sharing!

Good call.


【 在 anneal (anneal) 的大作中提到: 】
: Good finding!!! really helpful!!!
: It seems each airport has their own travel aids program.They are local
: volunteers to contribute some hours a week to help others at airport.
: Especially, I looked through the website for travelers aid in los Angeles
: airport. And found a customer message marked as "Daughter of a Chinese
: traveler".
: That means some people already knows it and used it before. (http://www.tasla.org/meet&greet.htm)
: I also found a note at their website:
: "All Meet and Greets must be arranged at least 72 hours in advance.
Although
: our services to travelers are free, we do suggest a $35 tax-deductible
: ...................

Thanks for sharing.

very useful information.
Ding!

回国的父母也可以向航空公司申请使用这项服务.

当时我们问的是美西北航空公司, 可以把父母从美国起点站接上, 护送出关登机, 转机
, 到达中国. 一般的服务不要钱. 但是如果子女实在不放心, 可以订航空公司的付费服
务, 90多美元. 可能照顾得更周到些. 不过我们没有用付费的服务.

Good finding!!! really helpful!!!

It seems each airport has their own travel aids program.They are local
volunteers to contribute some hours a week to help others at airport.

Especially, I looked through the website for travelers aid in los Angeles
airport. And found a customer message marked as "Daughter of a Chinese
traveler".

That means some people already knows it and used it before. (http://www.tasla.org/meet&greet.htm)

I also found a note at their website:
"All Meet and Greets must be arranged at least 72 hours in advance. Although
our services to travelers are free, we do suggest a $35 tax-deductible
donation per Meet and Greet event.Our volunteers do not accept gratuities."

So, I suggest we should make a donation as necessary. Otherwise, we might
abuse this program in the near future since too many Chinese passengers will
take this program after this service is exposed here, mitbbs.

好贴,好贴~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

up

thank you a lot

很有用的信息，谢谢lz分享

Ding

谢谢！正是我需要的。
这个帖子应该很多不会英语又不能直飞的父母都用的到吧，建议置顶

谢谢楼主，希望帮助到更多的父母。

Travelers Aid原来也是管入关的。

The goal of Protective Travel Service is to assist passengers and teach them
how to go through CUSTOMS and change terminals with the hope that they will
be able to travel independently in the future.

刚才看了下上次和他们沟通的email。

第一步移民局倒是没提到。

【 在 sophiashs (rourou|loveTechnicolor) 的大作中提到: 】
: 爸妈来探亲，因为我学期还没结束，所以只好让他们自己先去玩。给他们安排了一个加
: 州7天的华人旅行团。从中部农村经芝加哥转机至加州，那边有他们一个老朋友接机。
: 爸妈不会英语，转机时间只有40分钟，芝加哥机场又那么大，所以开头很担心。虽然是
: 美国国内航班转机，但还是要换terminal。我详细查了机场地图，告诉他们要坐bus
: shuttle(UA提供的），不是ATS那种轻轨小火车，不用重新安检。又把可能用到的话都
: 中英文对照地打印好。虽然这些后来都没用。
: 就在出发前1天，lg想到轮椅服务，那是不是也可以找机场的人帮助父母转机呢？后来
: 给航空公司(UA)和O'Hare机场都打了电话。知道轮椅服务这一项是航空公司提供的。其
: 它special assistant由机场travelers aid提供。这是一个non-profit组织，在美国各
: 个大机场都有。
: ...................

这个link里有他们这个机构cover的各机场的联系方式。
http://www.travelersaid.org/aptnetwork.html

从国内来的话，转机也是他们的服务范围。
具体打电话联系沟通一下吧。

楼主给个机场电话。谢谢了。

从国内来转，也是提前一周预约吗？
而且需要入关，不知道工作人员能等这么久不。

3x! very helpful info.

upup~
虽然罗嗦一点，还是希望需要这服务的能看得到。