---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 41726"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "41726"
heading: "Strollers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/41726"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart ii — economic regulation"
  - "Chapter 417 — Operations of Carriers"
  - "Subchapter I — Requirements"
---

# §41726. Strollers

- (a) **In General.—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), a covered [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2) shall not deny a passenger the ability to check a stroller at the departure gate if the stroller is being used by a passenger to transport a child traveling on the same flight as the passenger.
- (b) **Exception.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall not apply in instances where the size or weight of the stroller poses a safety or security risk.
- (c) **Covered Air Carrier Defined.—** In this section, the term “covered [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2)” means an [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2) or a [foreign air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-21) as those terms are defined in [section 40102 of title 49](/usc/49/40102.md), United States Code.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–254, div. B, title IV, § 412(a), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3331.)