Posted on 03/14/2018 6:58:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
See pic in post 22
See pic in post 22. Does that look like a TSA approved pet carrier ?
There’s nowhere in the story linked that they paid $125 and if they had an approved carrier, why was the puppy in a bag?? A bag is not an approved carrier. You can’t guarantee enough air flow.
If I’d paid for a $125 ticket, I would have demanded a refund on the spot or I would have insisted to be moved to a seat where I could place the dog in the location **I had paid** for her to be in, not in some overhead compartment.
The airline says they are accepting full responsibility but the stories do not add up.
What I want to know is... you have to put your personal carryons into the xray machine. Was the dog in the bag ?
The dog was probably dead, in the bag, before she ever got on the plane. Explains why the stewardess would see no harm in putting the bag in the overhead.
It would not shock me if the $125 ticket (if there was one) was for the newborn, not the puppy. If the baby isn’t taking up a seat, they aren’t charged full fare.
Upon what do you base your conclusion? News reports say the dog was barking in the carrier under the seat and in the overhead bin. For a while.
Dead dogs don’t bark, do they?
But... from a passenger: “The puppy barked throughout the flight, according to Lara:“filling our flight with his cries until he finally ran out of breath.”
United spokeswoman Maggie Schmerin said the airline was investigating the incident, and the family had been refunded the cost of their tickets, including the $125 pet cabin fee.
Post 22 looks like mesh side open and after checking out approved airline pet carriers on Amazon today, I would say yes.
United spokeswoman Maggie Schmerin said the airline was investigating the incident, and the family had been refunded the cost of their tickets, including the $125 pet cabin fee.
“Flight attendants, particularly the ones who have been around the longest, become brain dead ... the job is monotonous and they go thru the motions without giving it much thought ... which is why this incident occurred.”
Flight attendants on American are mostly old ladies now that avoid interaction with the passengers. You are given a coke and they spend the rest of the flight picking up the trash. The flight attendants should be ashamed of what their job has become.
“The dog was probably dead, in the bag, before she ever got on the plane. Explains why the stewardess would see no harm in putting the bag in the overhead.”
Now that’s the proper level of cynicism for this type of story.
There’s too many idiots allowed to fly as it is...add idiots with their animals and this is what happens.
My advice - leave the dog at home in a kennel. Why should I as a paying customer have to share a crowded airplane with another barking dog? I get plenty of those in my neighborhood.
The owner “zipped up” the bag.
The owner killed the dog.
Years ago I found out I was a party to a Class Action lawsuit against United Airlines. I received about fifteen $10 coupons in the mail per the judgement. Those tickets could only be used one per ticket purchased and only on a full-fare ticket.
Since I always bought my tickets through a travel agency I never paid full fare so the coupons were worthless. I read somewhere the lawyers raked in over $12 Million.
Look in the lower left corner of the picture. Mesh.
In sticking it in a bin and shutting the door on it, it’s likely the mesh was blocked. That would render the bag almost airtight.
It’s hard to tell what’s lies and what’s journalistic sloppiness, but the picture of the mesh isn’t.
The price is for having the dog in a carrier, on the cabin, in a bag that is stowed under a seat when the airplane isn’t sitting motionless before or after flight.
I transported a cat once this way. There is a special security procedure. The carrier goes through the X ray. The pet, out of the carrier, is carried by the owner through the normal metal detector and swabbed for tests by explosive sniffing machinery. Dead dog, I don’t think so, or it would have been rejected at the security point.
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