The Arc of Lehigh & Northampton Counties and Lehigh Valley International Airport are thrilled to announce Wings For All 2025! 

Date:  Saturday, June 7, 2025

Registration Time:  10:00 AM -11:00 AM
Boarding Start Time:  11:30 AM
Reception Start Time:  12:30 PM

Event location: Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE)
3311 Airport Road | Allentown, PA 18109

Part of living a full life in the community includes being able to travel to faraway locations for both work and pleasure. The Arc’s Wings for Autism®/Wings for All® (Wings) program is designed to give individuals and families that experience and the confidence to take to the skies with ease!

Wings for Autism®/Wings for All® is The Arc’s airport “rehearsal” program created to alleviate some of the stresses, hesitations and fears that can act as a barrier which inhibit participation in air travel for  individuals with autism or other intellectual/developmental disabilities. Wings helps to alleviate the stress that people with IDD experience when traveling by air by providing families with the opportunity to both experience and learn about how their loved ones will react to different stimuli in the airport.

During a Wings Event, participants will: 
    -Check-in to receive boarding passes
    -Pass through the TSA security checkpoint
    -Wait in the boarding area
    -Board an aircraft (that does not take off)

Registration for this event is exclusively open to individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Due to space limitations, each participant may bring only one family member or support person to board the plane, and one additional person that can go through TSA but can’t board the plane. 

(If registration is full, your name and information will be added to The Arc’s Wings For All 2025 waiting list. Everyone on the waiting list will be notified by June 1st, 2025 if there are additional spots available.)

**All participants 18 years or older MUST have a REAL ID, or approved form of identification as detailed in the attached link, in order to pass through TSA security. Individuals without a REAL ID will not be allowed to participate in this event. 

To learn more about REAL ID and REAL ID compliant documents, please visit this link:  www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification  

Please ensure that all sections of the registration form are completed and that the information matches your ID exactly. All participants over the age of 18 must bring a valid photo ID. Pre-registration is required for all attendees. 

Are you interested in helping participants register, directing participants through the airport & boarding process, and attending to support the individuals and families at Wings for All 2025?

If so, please sign up to volunteer and join us as part of Wings For All 2025 at ABE on June 7th! 

All volunteers must complete every section of the registration form below with information that matches your ID exactly, be over 18 years or older, and have a REAL ID or REAL ID compliant form of identification as detailed in the link below. Volunteers without a REAL ID will not be allowed to participate in this event.  To learn more about REAL ID and REAL ID compliant documents, please visit this link: www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification

Wings for Autism® was created by Charles River Center, an affiliated chapter of The Arc, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Port Authority. This program is run in conjunction with The Arc of the United States.

To learn more about Wings for Autism/Wings for All and learn about other upcoming events, please visit https://thearc.org/our-initiatives/travel/#overview.