A customer wanted to avoid the pet fee, so they tranquilized their cat, wrapped it in bubble wrap and put it in a suitcase/carry-on. The flight was delayed and the cat woke up screeching and clawing. Busted.
A female customer brought aboard the flight a Chihuahua dog. During the flight the crew attendant noticed that the customer had taken the dog out to nurse it. I’m not kidding.
A customer’s flight was cancelled due to weather. The next flight out was not until the next day. The customer demanded to be compensated for a hooker because he was being deprived of his wife for the night.
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We were flying back home to Portland, Oregon from a Thanksgiving holiday visit in Sacramento, California. We were on a small Alaska plane for the short hour and half flight. I was about 6 months pregnant, and was traveling with my husband and my 2 year old daughter. The plane was configured for 2 seats on each side of the aisle. My husband and daughter were on one side of the aisle, I was across from them on the aisle side. As my seatmate boarded, it was clear that she had a small dog in her bag. She had tried to take a shortcut and had put her dog into a regular duffel bag with some mesh lining for breathing instead of an animal carrier. As the plane took off, the flight attendant discovered the dog in the bag because it was barking and loud. The dog began to get more and more upset. The flight attendants were warning the woman that she couldn’t let the dog out to sit on her lap, and had to keep the dog contained in her bag. They were also very upset that she was not using a animal carrier to transport the dog.
As the flight attendants were in the midst of drink service (with the drink cart in the aisle), the dog chewed a hole and escaped from the bag and ran under the seat and towards the front of the plane. The flight attendants had to leave the drink service to try to catch the dog. The dog was racing all over the plane and was visibly freaked out. The woman couldn’t get out to help because we were at the back of the plane. Eventually the dog was captured, but the woman had difficulty keeping the dog in the bag. The flight attendants brought cardboard and duct tape – for her to try to tape up the rip in the bag that the dog had chewed through.
I could no longer sit in the seat because the dog was restless; the woman was almost sitting on the bag on the floor to keep the dog contained. So, I was moved to the empty aisle seat in front of my husband and child.
Unfortunately, it was occupied by a man reading a porn magazine. After discovering this, I clearly showed I was disgusted and tried to communicate non-verbally that I was not pleased. I did not however ask him directly to put away his magazine. It probably wouldn’t have helped; he did not bother to put his magazine away even with quarters close. I ended up turning my body with my legs in the aisle for the remainder of the flight.
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Several years ago my father adopted a stray kitten and decided to ship it to me when I was in the military stationed in Georgia. So I went to the Augusta airport to meet kitty’s flight and on the way got stuck in a massive traffic jam and was a little late.
I walked into the baggage claim area expecting to retrieve the kitty from a holding area in the back of the carousel but out of the corner of my eye, I saw kitty in her little cage on the carousel going round and round. I’m glad to say she was fine but I can’t imagine what the ride must have been like coming down the shoot!
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Last year I flew across country from San Diego to Hartford during the holidays. As I was waiting near the gate I noticed woman talking to her dog that she had enclosed in a pet carrier. I didn’t think much of it since pets are allowed on some flights. As soon as the flight took off the dog started barking incessantly. It got worse when there was turbulence and the dog would bark louder and louder. This was a 5 hour plus flight and the dog didn’t stop or rest, it just kept barking.
A flight during the holidays is stressful enough as it is without disruptions. At the end of the flight practically everyone seated near them wanted to strangle the dog’s owner and the dog too for that matter. As everyone glared at her she said, ”She usually is really quiet on flights.”
Signed, Give your pet a sleeping pill!
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