Weird Service Animals On Planes

New gallery on Bored Panda shows strangest support animals taken on planes.

Weird service animals on planes. Service animals are specially trained to assist their handler with a task related to a disability. Here are some of the strangest animals people have attempted successfully or not to bring on planes. The agency said Wednesday that it was rewriting the rules partly because passengers carrying unusual animals on board eroded the public trust in legitimate service animals.

Emotional support animals will no longer qualify as service animals for plane flight according to the rule but psychiatric service animals will. 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. Here are some of the most unusual service animals.

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. A child was injured by an emotional support dog on a Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Portland Ore in February fueling the debate over regulations regarding animals on. GETTY IMAGES Tales of flights filled with service peacocks service rabbits service monkeys service turkeys and service iguanas have become an internet cottage industry.

Airlines meanwhile have expressed concern about the heightened attention these animals have received and the resources airlines expend each time an unusual or untrained animal is presented for. One can only hope to be seated next to an adorable animal such as. Although commonly grouped together service animals and emotional support animals are very different.

EMOTIONAL support animals can now be banned from plane cabins after the US government ruled only service dogs can fly with their owners. In May 2018 due to an uptick in strange support animals making it to 30000 feet American Airlines announced that hedgehogs would no longer be welcome on their flights. Dogs are the most common service animals assisting people in many different ways since at least 1927.

Sorry I cant help myself. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Airlines will be able to require passengers traveling with service animals to complete a Transportation Department form attesting to the animals training and good behavior and. Weird service animals on planes.