It was possible for me. I recommend booking a refundable ticket.

I travel to Florida every year for Thanksgiving to see my folks. 3 hour flight from Hartford to Tampa. What I have done past years is booked the Saturday before Thanksgiving to the Saturday after. Saved a lot of money doing that. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day in the USA and you are basically going to take a wallet hammering if that is one of your travel days. Think outside of the box.

Regarding the issue of flying generally with a J Pouch, the only issue I have is lack of fluids. Flights dehydrate the crap out of me. The airports do not let you take bottled water through security and other than Jet Blue, most of the carriers do not give out complimentary bottled water. In 2011 when I flew to the Bahamas for the Battle of the Atlantis college basketball tournament, I was major league hassled by airport security at the Westchester, NY Airport (in White Plains) because of trying to sneak bottled waters through security. I later learned that Jet Blue, who was the carrier on that occasion, does have them on board (complimentary small bottled waters!). But other carriers do not. In any event, not knowing this at the time, I protested and claimed a defense of Medical Amnesty. Guess what, the security dude bought it with no argument! He saw all my meds in my backpack, cipro, flagyl, pentasa, imodium, donnatal, probiotics, etc etc. and he said to me, "GEEEZARINO with all those meds you must have medical issues!!!! Pass!"

I would have been able too. You just won't know until the time comes. Good luck...hope you have a speedy recovery so you can go.

I had takedown in early Nov & flew from MN to Mexico for a week in mid Dec. I was back to work, part time at the mall a week after surgery. I was young but healing after takedown was rapid for me.

Yes, you should be able to do this.

Sue

Thanks all!