“miniature horses”
WTF ?!?
How about my emotional support Bat?
Where’s you get the dog?
That’s not a dog, it’s a pig.
Shut up, I’m talking to the pig.
Having been a frequent flyer with over 220,000 miles for 2018/19, I am all in favor of the new rules.
I had a gig going around the country teaching Microsoft Azure courses. I can’t even begin to tell you all the different animals I saw on board. I would have been happy with just a pig... Better than many people.
But exotic wild animal predators? Lions, tigers and bears. Just nope.
This is one door I’ll bet the airlines wished they had bolted shut. I have an air-headed niece who has her dog registered as a support animal just so she doesn’t have to part with it when she travels. I’ll swear our society gets stupider and stupider every day.
What about my emotional support mule?
Used to be that animals had to be caged and they flew in the baggage compartment. No exceptions. Somehow we managed. And so did the animals.
The answer is simple.
Charge full airfare for transport of the ESA.
If the passenger is declaring they can’t travel alone without the ESA, it’s the same as requiring a human “nurse” accompany the passenger.
FULL FARE — that will drastically reduce the use of ESAs for travel.
Not only that — TAG the passenger in the TSA database as emotionally unstable.
Luggage used to be free — that is long one, the free transport of ESA will be long gone, eventually.
I saw this coming when some idiot demanded his “emotional support turkey” be allowed in the cabin with him.
What about my emotional support bat?
Weirdo Dirt bag POS
The OVERWELMING majority of airline customers too, I'm sure; myself included.
ML/NJ
Got to ft myers and was waiting for checked bag. Same a$$holes let the dogs run around again. One immediately took a big dump on the floor right by the luggage carousel; the other was on one of those extendable leashes. Naturally the jerk let it extend to the full length and the animal came sniffing over to my suitcase while she smirked it me. I told her to get her dog away from my suitcase. She immediately gave me a dirty look like I'd suggested something unnatural, but she pulled the dog back.
I feel sorry for the janitors having to clean up the shit from the floor. I personally would have liked to rub their noses (not the dogs' noses, the owners' noses)in the dog crap, but typical dog owners who think nothing of inflicting the odious pets on everyone else.
If you need an emotional support animal to go anywhere best if you just stay at home.
They’re not going to get any argument from the 99% of normal Americans.
You bet it is! This change means that I will no longer be able to travel with Rupert, my emotional support honey badger.
I don't understand this change at all. Rupert is very cute, although I will admit that he is a bit ill tempered, and takes $h!t from nobody (not even TSA).
Under the Air Carrier Access Act, airlines are required to allow emotionally impaired travelers to bring a support animal at no added cost.
I wonder if Europe and Asia are this permissive with support animals?