Posted on 01/22/2020 4:00:48 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Travelers may be used to flying with their emotional support animals -- anything from a pet hamster to a baby crocodile -- but the rules are about to change, according to a new proposal from the Department of Transportation.
The proposal unveiled by DOT on Wednesday proposes to strictly limit the definition of a service animal to a dog, reversing a policy that permits a wide range of other animals to fly under that framework.
DOT’s new rule also no longer requires airlines to recognize emotional support animals, with the agency citing a number of reasons for the change.
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"The increased availability of fraudulent ESA credentials has enabled people who are not truly in need of animal assistance to abuse the rules and evade airline policies regarding animals in the cabin," Airlines for America said in a statement. "This has led to an increase in incidents by untrained animals threatening the health and safety of passengers, crew and passengers with disabilities traveling with legitimate service animals."
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My emotional support Rhinoceros will be upset about this.
I can’t stand support animal owners.
Biggest Attention Whores ever and generally a boil in need of lancing...
DOT needs to propose new rules for emotional support animals to be used as suppositories on the DOT officials who wrote and approved the previous rules that allowed anything from a pet hamster to a baby crocodile to be “emotional support animals.”
Fed Guide lines state, the animal must perform a service/function aka (Open doors cabinets, guide ect)
Just sitting in some obese slobs lap in an air craft or Wall Mart cart dont cut it
No more horseys?
Funny cat flying story..... my daughter was flying back from Europe. The airline miscalculated and no room for her cat underneath the plane. The pilots agreed to allow the cat to fly in the cockpit. It was a European carrier, btw
Ya gotta face your fear to overcome it. My father was a stunt pilot and flew A-10s in the Navy and T-38s at NASA. After flying a few times with him, I don’t think air travel will do much to phase me.
One of the most impressive things I saw over the past few years was the guy who performed the altitude skydiving record. Felix Baumgartner Performed the jump in 2012, jumping from 128,000 feet. What impressed me most wasn’t the jump, but rather why he started doing this. He said he took it up to cure his claustrophobia. He had to ride up to that height in a tiny capsule that barely fit him with his suit and helmet. The amazing tenacity he exhibited to overcome his fears was the true feat he performed that day.
How About my Komodo dragon?
He’s my very important emotional support Komodo dragon!
Yeah, but I love peacocks
About F’n time!
About time!!!!
Put a mirror in front of them. They preen for hours
When I first flew, this was decades ago, I wasn’t so bad. But passengers weren’t treated like cargo and crammed in like sardines. Given the lack of legroom, hiproom, hygiene, heads too small to sit down in, scratched flights, lost luggage, and the insane prices airlines charge for such a rotten experience, I can say with authority that I would rather have a simultaneous root canal and IRS audit than fly.
I’m all for facing my fears, but not when its gonna cost me four figures a trip to do it. :-)
But if I, God forbid, have to get on a bleeping aircraft, I will pull up my big girl panties and deal.
Who takes precedence, an unstable flier with her dog, or a person with a dog allergy.?
So the pilots got a little pussy in the .......
are they the only ones with rights?....can't people go to a restaurant and not expect to have large animals at the other table??.
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