Invalid until we know the f*cking PERCENTAGES involved. Easy to calculate. (animals that died / total number of animals carried) times 100.
Repeat for each airline. Report airline with highest number.
Easy, eh?
And stop with the “everybody dump on United”. Yes, United is responsible for the assault on the Vietnamese doctor, but let’s not blame them for everything else.
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/