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The woman told the staff of her deathly allergy to her pooch passengers — one of which was a service animal — prior to takeoff and asked for the dogs to be removed from the LA-bound flight, according to CBS.
But the crew told her she was the one who’d have to disembark because she couldn’t produce a medical certificate proving she could travel safely with the animals on board.
I'm allergic to dogs, too, but it probably would have been sufficient to seat me as far away from the dogs as possible.
I think asking for the dogs to be deplaned was over the top.
People who travel by Amtrak should be aware that dogs are allowed in Coach now. Not, thank heaven, in the first class sleepers. We're still safe there.
If someone is told by airline employees that the plane isn't leaving and instructed to disembark, and they refuse, then forcible removal by the police is solely the passenger's fault. Enough already.
If the allergy prof. lady didn't specify her allergy when she book, tough gnoogies. Fly with the baggage or take another dog-less flight.
AFAIK, pet allergies aren't a protected class, so specifying wouldn't do any good. Service animals, OTOH, are a protected class. It wouldn't be feasible for airlines to accommodate flyers who can't fly with service animals.
I don't get it. If I had allergies like that, I'd have an industrial HEPA breathing mask for travel.
I've been on Southwest flights a number of times when the flight attendant announced on the PA that there would be no peanuts because somebody was allergic. Kind of the same thing with peanuts. If you're allergic, a surgical mask fixes the problem.
Glad they removed her the way they did. Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
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