Is it safe to fly with pneumonia?

Answer 1

Pneumonia and its slightly lesser cousin bronchitis are airborne infections.

You should not get on an enclosed plane with hundreds of other people when you have either of these.

It's bad for you, can exacerbate these conditions because you are flying at high altitude and that is not good for respitory conditions. It can also lengthen the time it will take you to recover; it can even cause potentially life threatening problems which would not be good.

Equally important is that flying would be very selfish thing because it would be potentially dangerous for every person you are around.

Both pneumonia and bronchitis are both serious illnesses that no one wants to catch and can lead to death of an older or weak fellow passenger.

Most airlines have refund policies for medical cases; you should check into it.