Did I say the ADA hasn't done anything to benefit people with disabilities? Seriously?!

Emotional support animals are one of the biggest scams today. Get a note from some sham website, skip paying a pet fee to carry your pet on board and then subject everyone around you to said pet that is allowed on your lap the whole flight. Credentials can't be questioned, passenger can't be questioned---it's a win-win for the scammers and a lose-lose for the airline and fellow passengers and crew.

 

That's a lot of emotional support there....

 

Emotional support animal are not covered under ADA. Direct your hate somewhere else, please.

 

Hi Cardiomd,

Are you sure about this? If so, I'd like to encourage my airline to stop allowing emotional support animals for a variety of reasons. I'm sure I can employ some Google-Fu and come up with a more complete legal basis (or lack thereof) for the emotional support animal sham, but if you know the law off the top of your head, it would kickstart my research.

It's my opinion that the emotional support animal situation is completely out of control and hurts and/or inconveniences far more people than it helps. IMHO, if a person is so emotionally unstable so as to require a pet pig as a travel companion to prevent an emotional breakdown over the course of a 3 hour flight, then that person probably shouldn't be locked in an (mostly) airtight tube with 230+/- other passengers for hours on end.

Like so many things that started off well-intentioned, I think the emotional support animal craze has managed to soil the more legitimate laws such as the ADA designed to protect citizens with legitimate special needs.

 

Lighten up Francis. Just because LNL made an ill-advised statement doesn't mean it's HATE.

This self-righteous social shaming is out of control. If we keep using such extreme language for every situation, words will eventually have no meaning.

 

Right now you can qualify to have an emotional support animal, on line for 79 bucks. No actual visit to a doctor. Imagine if you really had to see a doctor, pay what that might cost and renew it (with cost) on an annual basis. That would probably weed out a vast majority of the BS. Sad for those who really do need an emotional support animal. One of the last emotional support dogs I had on one of my flights tried to bite one of the FAs.

 

I want an emotional support Coral Snake who will bite everyone in sight and make me feel better.

 

Hey. Just 79 bucks on line

 

Sorry but snakes, ferrets and I believe spiders are not approved ESAs. I'm sure that'll change at some point.

 

Probably just need a little surcharge.