Who is the stupid bully who did this, I wish we had video.
wow, hold these thug employees accountable. Make them do something except screaming like plotting how their life makes everyones worse.
UNTIED Airlines: Okay, sorry about that. Here’s a 10% discount voucher for your next flight. KTNX Have a nice day.
Sorry but the dog is not a brother. Not even close. I am sorry about the dog though and the airline owes her a new one.
Did the family declare the dog as a service animal so that they could carry it on? Or pay extra to have it aboard? Sounds like it wasn’t in a carrier. Just saying it could have been an honest mistake. Not that I like defending UA.
This flight attendant needs a new profession.
This story stinks to high heaven. Was everyone on this flight an idiot?
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.
Read between the lines and see how absolutely ludicrous this story is.
I put the blame on the dog owner who was either too stupid or too cheap to do the proper thing with her animal. The overhead compartment is not air-tight but there may not have been much air given whatever carrier the puppy was in.
Too many animal owners lie about their beasts so they don’t have to send it to the cargo hold or buy a ticket. This is what sometimes happen. It’s animal cruelty but not on the part of the flight attendant. Next time, put the puppy in an approved air carrier and buy him/her a ticket under the seat in front.
Knowingly put it there, yeah do they think the dog jumped in on it’s own? Knowing that it would die? Prove it in court.
The Harris County DA should be looking at charges against the flight attendant
The last paragraph carries a statement from the flight attendants’ union that no flight attendant would ever knowingly put a pet in the overhead bin.
I dunno about that. Wasn’t it Southwest(?) that told a girl to flush her hamster down a toilet?
I realize that 1., it’s a bad idea to take an animal on a flight. 2., people shouldn’t let themselves be bullied like they are by the petit fascists of the TSA and airlines. But if you so much as look cross-eyed at these goons you’re likely to get your teeth knocked out and charged with a federal crime.
This is why if I can drive there in a day I do so. Then I don’t have to rent a car from Enterprise/National/Alamo.
Mother no English, different last names.
Sad story, but there are weird little crumbs, in this one.
Multiple stupid people involved here, including the adult owner with poor English not following airline rules about pet carriers and placement under the seat, not the aisle.
Stupid attendant claiming she didn’t know, darling, it’s your job to know and you didn’t listen to the customer trying to explain. I would fire her, immediately, because she is either evil or stupid, neither attribute is useful to the company.
Stupid passengers MYOBing, instead of speaking up.
So much stupid it’s amazing the plane didn’t fall out of the sky.
I was horrified to read this story this morning, and in mental anguish over the pup’s suffering. I would never have followed the flight attendant’s stupid order, even if I had to take a later flight. There is not enough circulating air in an overhead bin, especially for a flat-faced bulldog breed. This flight attendant is lying and should be sued for a very high amount of money. And, United should be sued as well, for giving authority to imbeciles like this flight attendant. Why couldn’t they have shoved the carrier under a seat? I’ve done that while flying with a kitten. Or, if there wasn’t room, flight attendants equipped with brains offer to put the carrier back by the kitchen. This puppy did not have to die, and French bulldogs are very expensive.
>>”The flight attendant came, and she was like, ‘You have to put him up there because it’s going to block the path,’” said Sophia, speaking on behalf of her mother, who isn’t fluent in English. “And we were like, ‘It’s a dog, it’s a dog.” And she said, ‘It doesn’t matter, you still have to put it up there.’”<<
Bitch should be fired and fined into bankruptcy.
Money heals all wounds.
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.