Fake Service Dogs on Flights: Confronting an Ongoing Challenge in Air Travel [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• The real problem is that these fake service dogs are large – and more than one – and they’re going to take up space from other passengers.

  Rules supposedly cracked down on this, but airlines still rely on passengers to self-certify – which gets them bigger animals on board, without paying a pet in cabin fee, and they don’t have to stay in a carrier.

  Maybe ’emotional support animals’ are less common than they once were, mostly because people bringing two of each animal on board aren’t great at doing advance paperwork in advance? But it’s not the airline that suffers from the animals it’s other passengers who give up already cramped space. What can be done?

  What do we do about fake service dogs?
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• Why airlines schedule more one-off ‘special event’ flights for things like the Kentucky Derby and Super Bowl than they used to.
• The first video review of the Delta One lounge at New York JFK after it opened? On this visit – a Wednesday night before a holiday weekend – the lounge was busy but hardly overrun.

  The lounge looks great, their beverage program is unimpressive, and the customer was still flying Delta’s awful Boeing 767 business class seat… but for a mass experience the business class ground product looks very good. Yet the hype just doesn’t seem to scale.

  My water glass was an empty for an hour in the restaurant and never got filled, despite two waiters saying they would get it for me.

• I’m a psychologist and here’s why the bizarre act of ‘rawdogging’ flights, where all entertainment is ignored, actually has MAJOR mental-health benefits Come on, people. Sitting face-forward on a plane and doing literally nothing isn’t new, and it isn’t a trend. People just like the word rawdogging because it seems vaguely transgressive and even sexual. And it doesn’t have “MAJOR mental-health benefits.”
• United Airlines does such a good job with these moments.
  

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