If I thought it would work, I’d print up “emotional support human” certificates so people could fly at a shared reduced cost.
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If I claimed to be allergic to “support humans”, could I get everyone else removed from the plane, so I can have some leg room??
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Okay, I don’t know what it’s like in the USA, but here in Europe, I’ve never heard of anyone carrying a “pet allergy card” or paper documentation stating they’ve got pet allergies.
If she really was allergic to dogs, why didn’t she just state that when booking her ticket?
That way, the airline booking system would flag the conflict between her and the dog owner as soon as the last of the two books their ticket, offering a different flight to them.
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There’s very little right in this issue, and a whole lot of wrongs -
(1) An Americans with Disabilities Act which mandates access for dogs based on not much more than the say so of the dog owner.
(2) Dog owners who take advantage of that to bring their dogs, who have no service functions whatever, wherever they like.
(3) People like the woman in the article, who apparently think that a plane is a sterile environment, free of allergens, until a dog walks through the door. And leverage that to create a rumpus.
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It’s ceiling to floor, actually. But it’s not a perfect stream. Mixing will happen because the flow is not (and never can be ) a laminar flow: it’s turbulent and thus mixing happens. Plus there is air recirculation, so even though the filters clear 97%, there’s also stuff in there.
Turns out a simple google search will tell you way more than you want to know, but it seems to boil down to this: being on an airplane with so many people for more than half an hour is equivalent to being in the same kind of room on the ground.
Which means that people with severe allergies WILL get fucked up by those dogs (I sadly am one of them … dogs, cats, grasses, mites, etc). I will have at least a night of horrible breathing.
That said: the woman was a horrible drama queen who kept on changing her story.
And I also remember a time when all pets had to be stored in the pressurised hold. And when security theater wasn’t a thing.
But a simple google search and 5 minutes will tell me you’re not correct in your assertion.
What I wonder is this, Is:
A plane with 160 passengers on it, many of who are dog owners, and whose seats have been sat in by perhaps twenty thousand dog owners since those seats were thoroughly cleaned, significantly more free of dog allergens than
The exact same plane, except with a small dog in seat 24C?
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