Pet in cabin = no upgrade
Dec 2, 2019, 5:14 pm
#31
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 45
First off: the airline is named for a state where you literally cannot drive a bus to the capital city, because there isn’t a road there connecting it to the rest of the USA.
Second: service animals are actually a thing. You going to fly a blind person in the hold with their service animal?
Third, if you’re not happy with common carriers I’m sure you can charter a jet that meets your qualifications. Otherwise you can fly your bus with wings, because that’s what it is. It’s not your plane. Their plane, their rules.
Second: Service animals is an abused privilege, I have friends who have a "Service animal" and I tell them they abuse that privilege almost on a daily basis. There needs to be more regulation around this. And yes, if the wheelchair person needs to give up their chair and be carried on the plane, the blind person can be helped on and animal put in the hold. Although I would be fine with the blind person and their animal.
Third: Sorry, support animal people are the minority, the rest of us shouldn't be burdened with their social issues. They can charter their own plane and not impact the majority of people...shoot I bet they could probably start their own airline.
Fourth-ly: I don't own the airlines nor am I in any position to change policy, so take my criticism as just that; MY criticism.
Dec 2, 2019, 5:22 pm
#32
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 45
Nothing to 'take advantage' of for an owner picking up a new pet from several states away. This occurs literally all the time for folks purchasing pure bred dogs and cats. What does it matter which cabin the pet flies in so long as there is appropriate under seat room for the carrier? Should all of us drive cross country instead?
Across the ocean, ok there is a need but across the country, drive.
Again, my thinking not policy so have at it.
Dec 2, 2019, 5:51 pm
#33
Join Date: Aug 2018
Programs: AA Exec Plat, Bonvoy Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 621
AS still says that pets are not allowed in Airbus F cabins. Does this still apply to retrofitted cabins?
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ling-with-pets
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ling-with-pets
Dec 2, 2019, 5:55 pm
#34
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
Programs: DL PM 1.57MM; AS MVPG 100K
Posts: 21,375
as stated above, the “no-pet-carriers-in-F” policy was in place for the jets inherited from VX, because the big cushy white recliners do not have under-seat storage ... it is not any stretch of the imagination to inquire as to whether AS has revised a policy that no longer applies to the Airbus jets that have had the F cabin reconfigured
Dec 2, 2019, 7:54 pm
#35
formerly ASTechGuy
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Milton, WA USA
Posts: 229
AS still says that pets are not allowed in Airbus F cabins. Does this still apply to retrofitted cabins?
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ling-with-pets
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ling-with-pets