Accessibility guides

Getting through MIA with a disability or reduced mobility: how to arrange wheelchair assistance, accessible parking, quiet rooms and support for hidden disabilities where the airport offers it. The guides explain what to request and when, and the accessibility page lists where the airport places each service.

Looking for the listings themselves? They are on the Accessibility & assistance page.

• Hidden disabilities at Miami airport

  MIA's Sunflower lanyard, how to request one by email, the sensory rooms, visual paging, sign language by video, Aira for low vision, and the MIAair practice trips.

  • What MIA offers
  • Where a visual page shows up
  • On the day
  • If something goes wrong
• Medical help at Miami airport

  In a medical emergency at MIA, call 911: the airport's own fire rescue answers from two stations on site. Where to buy basic medicine, and help for smaller problems.

  • If someone is unwell after security, call for help first
  • Pharmabox machines sell basic medicine around the clock
  • Where to go for smaller problems
• Miami airport for travelers with reduced mobility

  Getting around MIA if walking is hard: the long distances in Concourse D, the Skytrain, accessible parking bridges, restrooms, security lanes and how to rehearse the trip first.

  • The distances are long, and trains cover the worst of them
  • Park on Level 3 for the smoothest walk in
  • Unisex restrooms are only in the North and South Terminals
  • Security and Customs both have accessible options
  • Rest, charging and first aid along the way
  • Practice the trip first
• The sensory rooms and quiet spaces at MIA

  MIA's two multi-sensory rooms, after security in Concourse D and the H–J connector, open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., plus the chapel and other calmer places to wait.

  • Which room is on your route
  • Other calmer places
  • Help before and during the trip
• Traveling through MIA with medication and medical devices

  TSA's rules for medicine, liquids over 3.4 ounces, ice packs, CPAP machines and insulin pumps at MIA's checkpoints, and how to arrange help with screening before you fly.

  • TSA allows medicine and devices, with a few rules
  • You can arrange help at the checkpoint in advance
  • What MIA has for you on either side of security
• Wheelchair assistance at Miami airport: how to arrange it

  Wheelchair service at MIA comes from your airline, not the airport. How to book it, what the attendant will and won't do, and the Rental Car Center and Customs exceptions.

  • Who arranges each part of the journey
  • What the wheelchair attendant does
  • Traveling with your own power chair
  • Arriving from abroad
  • Getting to and from MIA
  • If the service doesn’t turn up