Weird Service Animals On Planes

A customer tried to bring a baby kangaroo on the plane as a service animal a retired airline customer service agent with 18 years of experience told Business Insider.

Weird service animals on planes. Airlines believed passengers abused the rule to bring a menagerie. Delta also says it does not allow animals that emit a foul odor. As one Gawker writer said If I saw this happening in person it would not just make my trip or my month or my year it.

The decision which aims to settle tensions between carriers and passengers who bring their pets on board for free could earn airlines an extra 60million a year. The VERY strange emotional support pets passengers have taken on planes including ducks a kangaroo and a HORSE. Here are some of the strangest animals people have attempted successfully or not to bring on planes.

Weird service animals on planes. Delta has a set of rules that bans snakes hedgehogs ferrets insects and sugar gliders. Emotional support animals will no longer qualify as service animals for plane flight according to the rule but psychiatric service animals will.

A turtle is a trusty companion on a flight. These prickly little pals may be deemed emotional support animals by their owners but theyre still Erinaceomorpha non grata on some planes. EMOTIONAL support animals can now be banned from plane cabins after the US government ruled only service dogs can fly with their owners.

Service animals are specially trained to assist their handler with a task related to a disability. Disability advocates have voiced concerns that the use of these unusual service animals on aircraft erodes the publics trust and confidence in service animals the NPRM states. New gallery on Bored Panda shows strangest support animals taken on planes.

Dogs are the most common service animals assisting people in many different ways since at least 1927. But have you heard of reptiles or pigs used as support animals by people with disabilities or health conditions. When it comes to service animals a dog is the most commonly used although the use of horses and monkeys has also been documented.