A United Airlines passenger, being dubbed a ‘Karen’, brought her dog to the galley of a Boeing 787. When a flight attendant reprimanded her – the dog can’t be in the food prep area – the woman defended the choice to bring him there: “He needs to do potty!”
The passenger felt that because the dog was wearing a diaper that made it o.k. to walk him through the aircraft, including the galley, in order to get him to go pee and poo. And she got stern with the crewmember: “I don’t appreciate you taking that tone with me.”
Unleashed service dog walking laps around a 787
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While ’emotional support animals’ aren’t supposed to be allowed on board anymore – passengers can either bring service animals or pay the pet in cabin fee and keep their animal inside its carrier – passengers simply have to attest on paperwork that their pet is a service animal. I’ve seen the return of Noah’s Ark to many of my flights over the past several months. That leads to frequent… stinky messes.
The passenger here would have had to claim their dog was a true service animal, but that’s highly unlikely to be the case. Here are five easy ways to spot a fake service animal on your flight.
My Thanksgiving Delta flight turned back and suffered a long delay over an improperly declared ‘service animal’. Unfortunately the passenger was allowed to travel with her support dog, proceeding to pet it in her lap throughout the journey.