In early December 2020, the US Department of Transportation issued a final ruling regarding emotional support animals (ESAs), allowing airlines to no longer accommodate ESAs if they don't want to. Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines, have all already announced plans to ban ESAs. United Airlines is the latest carrier to…
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For those with psychiatric conditions I hope professional training of an animal to help is available, I would hate to see a troubled mind training an animal without experience in training animals become a cure.
It’s be the same as saying a person requiring psychological medicine can just make their own anti psychotic medicine. Let science be science and don’t play games.
People will just expect the loophole until it’s closed for good. It’ll just take a few more highly publicized dog bites to get to that point.
A certificate from a qualified and accredited trainer plus a letter from the person’s psychiatrist should have been mandatory from day one
As someone who experienced a longhaul United flight (IAH-SYD) sitting with a fully-grown silver-backed gorilla on my lap whilst his guardian downed several martinis and forgot to feed her "emotional support animal", this is welcome news.
I understand why there is an extra pet fee. I fly constantly;however, I have never had my time on a flight disturbed due to a animal. Children on the other hand are another story. It’s astonishing how due to the need of a 1 selfish family 300 people have to suffer for the duration of their flight. IMO think there should be an extra charge for traveling with children whom you can’t stop from crying, yelling or disturbing the peace of others. Also they should be banned from first class. It’s ridiculous that others pay a hefty price for those seats and have to deal with a screaming toddler. I’m not exaggerating. I’ve had my chair be constantly kicked, my seat taken by families who didn’t pay for their seats in advance and want to sit together, and endured 2 screaming children on an long haul flight. And this is just my last 3 flights. I’ll take an ESA anyway over children.
I’m still seeing dogs on United and American
It stinks. This so called psychiatric support animal is b/s. These people are too cheap to board their dogs so they drum up a story and the airline lets them on a plane
I was on a Dallas - Orange County flight and the row across from me had a lady and her dog. The dog had fleas. It was agitated and scratching so the people that sat in that row later would have had fleas.
This practice is unacceptable.