American Airlines bans emotional support amphibians, ferrets, goats and more

chicagotribune ^ | May 14 2018 | Lauren Zumbach

[JoeProBono]

First United Airlines barred an emotional support peacock from boarding. Now American Airlines is telling passengers some of their service and emotional support animals — including goats, hedgehogs and tusked creatures — can’t fly.

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Under the new rules, which go into effect July 1, American is adding amphibians, goats, hedgehogs, insects, nonhousehold birds and animals with tusks, horns or hooves to the list of those that can’t fly as service or support animals. .............

[pabianice]

They won’t let me fly with my emotional support alligator snapper, Cuddles!

[deport]

Article from yesterday if anyone cares to scan thru the comments.

American Airlines Announces New Support Animal Policy: Goats Not Allowed, Trained Mini Horses Are ^
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[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Brian Griffin]

Ford security head Harry Bennett would be so upset that he couldn’t have his pet lions with him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bennett

“Bennett furthered his tough guy image by keeping lions as pets at his Ann Arbor estate. He startled fellow executives by bringing the cats to his office and painting their likenesses.”

[ColdOne]

LOL!

[-YYZ-]

How about just banning “support” animals altogether, and just allowing legitimate service animals (ones that have real documentation or that are obviously legitimate), and let these bunch of thumb-sucking abusers of what were generous policies suck it up?

[Deplorable American1776]

My support animal - a giraffe- can't fly on American Airlines? Oh well..the giraffe told me the headroom was very low...and Mrs Deplorable's support animal - an elephant can't fly...can ConservaTeen's pig fly? 😀

[Delta 21]

Dont piss off my emotional support animal! We have checked the rules and know them better than you!

[hattend]

How did these people fly 5 years ago?

All this is is a way to fly your pets cross country for free.

[Ken H]

“”If you are so wacky that you need to keep your dog with you at all times, I suggest you check yourself into a psychiatric hospital for treatment.”

Or a kennel:)

[Ken H]

This is the honey badger...

[SgtHooper]

Yup. I’m off to Delta with my pet Honey Badger.

[M Kehoe]

Please take some video.

5.56mm

[SgtHooper]

LOL! I saw him in a petting zoo! /s

[Magnum44]

How did society get to the point where anyone would think of having an ‘emotional support pet peacock’ much less expect to fly on an airline with one?

[JoeProBono]