Posted on 03/14/2018 6:58:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A mother and daughter whose puppy died while flying United are alleging that a flight attendant knowingly forced the animal into an overhead bin.
And now Catalina Robledo and her young daughter, Sophia Ceballos, are saying the flight attendant responsible is lying about the encounter that killed their 10-month-old French bulldog, Kokito.
"It makes me feel sad -- I just really miss him," Sophia, 11, said Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. "He was a member of our family. He was like my brother to me."
"He was special," she added, holding back tears. "He was really smart and really sweet too."
The family is alleging that the United employee knew there was a dog in the bag when asked to place it in the overhead bin.
"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.'"
A passenger on the flight told ABC News that the flight attendant didn't know there was a dog in the bag when she insisted on moving it to the overhead compartment. Upon hearing that there was a dog in the bag after the flight landed the flight attendant "seemed frazzled and shocked," the passenger said. "She said that she did not know there was a dog in the bag, and if so she never would have instructed it to be put in the bin above."
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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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