Airlines Ban Emotional Support Animals
Department of transportation (dot) has proposed a ban on emotional support animals, as well as a restriction on the types of service animals that passengers would be allowed to bring on.
Airlines ban emotional support animals. Airlines can now say “no” to cats, birds, turtles and any other animal a passenger says is there for “emotional support,” after the u.s. The department of transportation announced a final rule on dec. Airlines in the us can now ban emotional support animals from flights
For the department of transport has ruled that they are no longer to be. The dot notes it no longer considers an emotional support animal to be a service animal, paving the way for airlines to ban them if they don't fit established rules about pets. 2 that could change how airlines.
For years, the government required airlines to allow animals with passengers who had a doctor's note saying they needed the animal. Department of transportation issued a “final rule. Airlines believed passengers abused the rule to bring a menagerie of animals on board including cats, turtles, pigs and in one case, a peacock.
The dot notes it no longer considers an emotional support animal to be a service animal, paving the way for airlines to ban them if they don't fit established rules about pets. On december 2, the us. Feds say airlines can ban emotional support animals.
United airlines carried 76,000 comfort animals in 2017. Us airlines can now ban emotional support animals from flights after the government closed a major loophole for travellers. New rule could allow airlines to ban emotional support animals and treat them as pets instead.
And in 2014, a passenger was kicked off a us airways flight after his emotional support pig pooped in the cabin. Airlines cannot ban a specific breed or species of support animal, though they have some latitude to deny specific animals. Passengers have also been seen with comfort turkeys, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes, spiders, and more, according to delta, which cracked down on emotional support animals in 2018.