Yep, Emotional Support Peacock - just when you thought you’d seen it all…
http://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2018/01/29/united-airlines-peacock/
Kudos to United.
He will likely sue United for emotional distress.
Never underestimate what your fellow human being will try to do.
Plus there is no way to house train one not to go on the plane. Ewww.
I’m imagining the peacock opening its feathers on a flight.
Peacock screams are blood curdling.
Just got off the phone with United Disabilities Desk. It has a menu option: Press 1 for flying with a support animal, press 2 for other disability services, press 3 for … Interesting. I can’t recall this even being a menu option before–must be a TON of calls.
Just found the new form that United is requiring for Support Animals:
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/specialneeds/disabilities/support-animal-form.html
Here’s MORE:
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/specialneeds/disabilities/assistance_animals.aspx
BBC has an article about that emotional support peacock:
From the article linked above,
SMH…
Yes, the articles I read said the owner was told at least 3 times that she could not bring the peacock on the plane.
Sounds like her trip to the airport was mostly performance art. She got the attention she craved. And actual passengers got a story to tell.
I don’t use a peacock. My emotional support device for flights is a seat in First Class.
It also got United to enact its ESA policy and put it on its website and have forms and everything. Really, if the peacock finds public transit “stressful,” what will he find it to be seated beside a dog or cat for the long flight form east coast to west coast? Wish “artist” didn’t get her desired publicity.
I need some publicity badly… Let me see what I can come up with to drag onto a plane as my ESA… A bat in a jar?! Hmmm… that sounds like a possibility, but I need something bigger and more visible.
My goldfish used to travel with me going home from college at Christmas. His Tupperware container went thru the x-ray machines and everything. Sadly, the terrorists have ruined that little caper.
I think I’d like an emotional support elephant. Would that fly do you think?
I’m going to bring my ESA sloth on my next flight. That should hold up the aisle to the bathroom as well as the adult beverage cart.