Vueling asks for nothing until you finish week 27. From week 28 to the end of week 35 you must carry the original medical authorisation, a document with its own validity dates, the doctor's medical board number and a signature; from week 36 (week 32 for twins) Vueling will not carry you. Here is how to get it right.
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Up to and including 27 weeks you need nothing. From week 28 to the end of week 35 (35 weeks + 6 days) you must bring the original medical authorisation: a doctor's document confirming you can fly, with a validity period (start and end dates), the doctor's medical board number and a signature. From 36 weeks (32 for an uncomplicated multiple pregnancy) Vueling will not let you fly, paperwork or not.
Vueling publishes no form; it describes the original medical authorisation precisely enough to be a checklist:
Two things are missing: a maximum age for the document, and any word on whether a scan or phone photo is acceptable. Vueling says original, so carry the signed document and keep a photo as backup. Add your due date too; the NHS notes airlines may ask for it after week 28.
| Letter or certificate required from | Week 28 (28 weeks + 0 days) |
| Last week you can fly, single | Week 35 (35 weeks + 6 days); not carried from 36 weeks |
| Last week, twins or more | Week 31 (31 weeks + 6 days), uncomplicated; not carried from 32 weeks |
| Letter must be issued within | No number of days; the document's own validity dates must cover each flight |
| Own form | None; Vueling describes content, not a template |
| Who can sign | A doctor with a medical board number; midwives are not mentioned |
| Source checked | help.vueling.com, Flying while pregnant, 24 September 2026 |
Vueling's bands are inclusive: up to 27 weeks + 6 days, no certificate; from 28 weeks + 0 days through 35 weeks + 6 days, the authorisation is compulsory; and from 36 weeks + 0 days Vueling refuses carriage. For an uncomplicated multiple pregnancy the last band starts at 32 weeks + 0 days, so the final day with twins is 31 weeks + 6 days. No rule covers a complicated pregnancy: ask the airline.
Each flight counts on its own day: at 27 weeks + 3 days you need nothing outbound but do for a return ten days later, at 28 weeks + 6 days.
The validity period is Vueling's distinctive feature: the doctor writes a start date and an end date, and each flight must fall within them. Give the doctor both flight dates, ask for an end date on or after the return, and check that the return is still before 36 weeks + 0 days (32 weeks + 0 days for multiples), which no validity date can extend. How long a period a doctor will sign is a clinical judgement, not an airline rule; a long trip may mean a second consultation abroad, where a doctor on Mobi Doctor helps.
Vueling asks for the doctor's medical board number: in Spain the número de colegiado. Any licensed doctor has an equivalent number, and no airline requires a UK GP, so the signer need not be Spanish; the number just has to sit beside the signature. Midwives are not mentioned, so a midwife's letter is a risk.
Doctors on Mobi Doctor are EU-registered: ask for the registration number, validity dates and signature on the pregnancy fit-to-fly certificate, which is issued where clinically appropriate. The doctor is on the video call usually within 15 minutes (service hours daily 7am–11pm CET); the consultation costs €54 + €10 for the certificate.
Iberia, in the same group, uses the same boundaries (week 28, last flights in week 35, week 31 for multiples) but describes the document loosely: a certificate from your doctor shown at boarding, no validity dates, no board number; its page notes that from 36 weeks you cannot fly on Vueling-operated services. Ryanair has its own Expectant Mother form from week 28 and allows a single pregnancy until the end of week 36 (twins 32). easyJet needs no letter and shares Vueling's week-35 line but gives twins until week 32. Mixed bookings follow the tightest rule; the airline pregnancy rules hub lists all 30.
Not before week 28. Between 28 weeks + 0 days and 35 weeks + 6 days you must bring the original medical authorisation: confirmation you can fly, a validity period, the doctor's board number and signature.
To 35 weeks + 6 days on departure day with a single pregnancy, and to 31 weeks + 6 days with an uncomplicated multiple pregnancy. From 36 weeks (32 for multiples) Vueling does not carry you.
No. Vueling's page is explicit: from 36 weeks pregnant women cannot fly, for safety reasons, and no authorisation overrides it. A return at 36 weeks must be rebooked into week 35.
Vueling gives no number of days. What counts is the validity period the doctor writes: the flight date must sit between its start and end dates. An expired document is worthless, however recent.
Only until 31 weeks + 6 days for an uncomplicated multiple pregnancy, with the authorisation from week 28. From 32 weeks Vueling refuses a multiple pregnancy and sets no rule for a complicated one.
Four things: confirmation that you can fly, a validity period with start and end dates, the doctor's medical board number and signature. Bring the original, not a copy; our pregnancy fit-to-fly guide describes what a doctor checks.
General information, not medical advice — always confirm with your airline before you travel.
