The Carry-On
Air Travel with Diabetes
For anyone flying with diabetes, and the partner or family flying with them: a plan for the whole flight, from the bag that never gets checked to the time zone on the other end.
Inside The Carry-On
- The full guide, read online as a book, always current as new issues land
- Six short videos to share before or during the trip, added after launch. Everyone who bought earlier gets each one, and the price goes to $50 once all six are in.
- An overview deck that walks the whole trip in one sitting, for the planning talk at the kitchen table.
- One-page team cards for how your travelers talk and work together: a before-we-leave huddle card, a who-does-what card, a card for when something goes wrong, and one card per issue.
- Printable checklists: packing, an emergency protocol, and a partner discussion guide.
- A 6x9 paperback for the bag, with the team cards, checklists and emergency protocol each on its own page. It comes after the online guide.
Flying puts your supplies, your devices and your insulin through a security line, a pressurized cabin and a new time zone in one day. You decide what goes in the carry-on, what you say at the checkpoint, and how your insulin schedule lands on the other side. The guide lays those decisions out in order, so you make them at home instead of at the gate.
Two people share one carry-on of supplies and one security line, and one of them speaks up at the checkpoint. The team cards settle who packs what, who watches the numbers in seat 23C, and what to say to a gate agent when the flight is delayed.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 8 issues:
- 1. The Flight Plan You Make at the Kitchen Table
- 2. The Bag That Never Gets Checked
- 3. What You Say at the Security Line
- 4. Cabin Pressure, Bubbles, and the Insulin at 35,000 Feet
- 5. Six Hours in Seat 23C
- 6. Landing in a Different Time Zone Than Your Insulin
- 7. The Delay, the Lost Bag, and the Gate Agent
- 8. The Trip Debrief That Makes the Next Flight Easier
The guide follows one flight that goes well, from the plan at the kitchen table through one snag you did not see coming, to the debrief that makes the next flight easier.
How to get it
This guide is $25 at launch.
BTD Vacation Time: Online Coaching built around your trip
Three months of online sessions with your trip as the syllabus: a planning session with everyone who is traveling, written trip notes your family can take along, a check-in while you are away, and a debrief once you are home. It starts at $8,000, and availability is extremely limited. Family-to-family coaching, never medical advice.
If you're flying soon and want help fitting it to your family, that's what BTD Vacation Time is for.
If your family wants Trapper on the trip itself, that is Diabetes Concierge: four days is $46,000 plus travel, inside the Diabetes Concierge range of $28,000 to $72,000 plus travel.
See BTD Vacation Time → Complete the intake form →Questions about a BTD Travel Guide or an order: Ask through the question form