Posted on 04/15/2017 2:13:18 PM PDT by Morgana
More people are keeping an eye on the actions of United Airlines after a disturbing video of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly and violently removed from a plane went viral.
Most recently, several people took to Twitter to post statistical information from the Department of Transportation that showed more pets died while being transported by United than any other major airline in 2016.
The data, which surfaced on Monday, showed that United reported 9 pet deaths and 14 injuries for last year alone.
Some of the pet deaths include a Yorkshire Terrier named Diamond, a Belgian Malinois named Bakry and an American Staffordshire Terrier named Winston.
Most of the animal deaths appeared to be dogs, with the exception of a Sphynx cat.
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Watch out where the huskies go...
If you paid the same price that you used to, adjusted for inflation, you would be flying first class. It’s better than the “old days”. So stop complaining about the money you’re saving. It’s your choice.
Have been reading the reports case by case. Took me ten minutes, sorry.
Am not a Vet nor do I play one on TV but here is my opinion as a Dog and Cat owner. Do NOT take your pets on an airplane. For some reason this greatly distresses them. The majority of these injuries/deaths were caused by the pet attacking the cage, one would assume, trying to get out. Now most pets don’t like the cage and if you all have pets as most of you do and you’ve taken them to the Vet you know they don’t like it. However to attack the cage to injury or death means they really did not like flying.
Put Rover or Fluffy in the RV or SUV and go cross country. If nothing else put them up at your local Ritz-Doggleton Kennel time you are gone, at least they will be alive when you come home.
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/United_Redacted_2016.pdf
“And stop with the “everybody dump on United”
I agree! It’s pitiful. Republic Airways is the airline involved in the incident, not United Airlines! Airport security dragged the doctor off the plane, not United employees!
THIS is how it went viral!
Tyler Bridges, a journalist from the Washington Post, was on the plane; his wife took the video of the man being dragged. Tyler Bridges made sure all the media outlets had his name and his report as a witness. I noticed his name was mentioned in every article thereafter. Then he appeared on cable news networks and talk shows starting on Monday. He reported it was a United Airlines plane and staff involved. The damage was done. He and the media got it wrong; it was Republic Airways. This article below explains it. Republic Airways have their own CEO, planes, pilots, flight attendants, gate agents, supervisors. They are NOT managed by United Airlines!
United Airline pilots are furious!
No need to watch the video. It’s the doctor’s lawyer blaming United. Oh...by the way...United has 86,000 employees and Republic Airways has 5,000 employees. Guess who has the most money for the doctor?
http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2017/04/14/infuriated-united-airlines-pilots-want-you-know-passenger-dragged-off-republic-plane/100459412/
Thank you for your question. Report must be from the reporter who said the MOAB was 70% of the first Nuc in Japan.
She was a rescue and we didn’t have a dog Underground Railroad back then.
It was fly or die.
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Out of over 109,000 pets transported..........Sounds safer than carrying your pet in your lap while driving as a lot of idiots do or letting them out of the house.
Any information on the cause of these deaths, such as maybe preexisting conditions or perhaps the distance of the flights? Of course not...........
"In the US alone approximately 1.2 million dogs are killed on the roads each year. The number of cats killed on the roads in the US every year is much higher at an approximation of 5.4 million*.
In most of these cases, the dog was hit for a relatively simple reason considering the facts. The dog cannot be seen by the motorist and the driver only spots the dog once it is too late. Even if you have a light colored dog, at night every dog becomes a hidden target."
“I thought most airlines had a heat rule, usually 85 Fahrenheit. If it’s warmer than that at any destination, the pets can’t fly.”
Each airline has its own rules, I know Delta would not fly our dog to Europe when we moved our family during the summer several years ago, so we had to take her with us (on United) when we returned to Europe from a trip to California that Christmas. Later, when unfortunately my job ended and we had to move back, I had to make a special quick trip flying home to Ohio on May 15 of that year, the last calendar day Delta would fly animals as baggage in the cargo hold (50 lb dog). It was actually cheaper to fly round trip with her as baggage one-way than to send her through their pet transport system, and I hope a bit less stressful as I was able to take her out for a bit during the layovers.
Both United and Delta let me take her from her kennel at a connecting airport (though a pain as required checking out and in again) and things went well with both.
I agree with others - this is a totally separate issue from the Dr. Dao situation. I believe United has more flexibility on dates than Delta and may fly more pets than other airlines, so really nothing should be read into this statistic until put in context.
Whose name was on the outside of the aircraft? Whose logo was on the seats - napkins - uniforms?
When flying United, claim your snake is a service animal.
With cats, if you have a carrier that fits under the seat, you can take them into the cabin with you. I’ve only flown one cat, but that’s how I did it. No way would I let her be handled by strangers.
I'm jus sayn.
Of all the meetings of my career (and there have been many strange ones and odd ones and nice ones), this was the oddest.
This company, from the front door to the secretary in charge of the CFO--and she asserted herself as if in charge--to the CFO himself, was strangely cold.
I am a Southerner and most folks respond to me with some varying degree of warmth.
Not the folks at this company.
They were cold as a dead fish.
Just saying...for what it's worth.
As an aside, I used to go to a mafia hangout on Hanover Square in NYC for lunch (the food was irresistible).
The staff and the clientele (diners all appeared to be made men and above...professional) were friendly and nice. I spoke to them and they were friendly in return.
The United Air folks were cold as dead fish in comparison.
How many people died on United flights? !
Those pets wouldn’t move when told, they had to die!
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