{"id":346071,"date":"2018-01-30T20:17:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/woman-denied-emotional-support-peacock-on-united-flight\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T20:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:17:29","slug":"woman-denied-emotional-support-peacock-on-united-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/woman-denied-emotional-support-peacock-on-united-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Denied Emotional Support Peacock on United Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Birds of a feather may flock together, but United Airlines recently shot down one traveler\u2019s request to bring her emotional support peacock on a flight departing Newark Liberty International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Live and Let Fly reported earlier this week that even though the unidentified woman claimed that she had a second ticket for the peacock, the airline denied her request.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for United further tells Fox News that the traveler(s) with the peacock were told they would not be able to bring it on board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This animal did not meet guidelines for a number of reasons, including its weight and size. We explained this to the customers on three separate occasions before they arrived at the airport,&#8221; said United in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the unusual scene were shared to Facebook by travel talk show The Jet Set, sparking online commenters to both condemn and champion United\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>ENOUGH ALREADY!! We are disgusting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EmotionalSupport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EmotionalSupport<\/a> animals on an upcoming episode! Much like this emotional support peacock recently spotted at Newark International Airport! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/crewlife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#crewlife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/avgeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#avgeek<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/travel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#travel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/airlines?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#airlines<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bggNl4PIe0\">pic.twitter.com\/bggNl4PIe0<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 The Jet Set (@TheJetSetTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJetSetTV\/status\/957640064342904832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUnbelievable, this has to stop now!!\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ll take the majestic peacock over the 5+ dogs that have attacked my coworkers just this past holiday season,\u201d another supposed airline staffer fired back.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes on heels of Delta\u2019s controversial crackdown of emotional support&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/woman-denied-emotional-support-peacock-on-united-flight\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds of a feather may flock together, but United Airlines recently shot down one traveler\u2019s request to bring her emotional support peacock on a flight departing Newark Liberty International Airport. Live and Let Fly reported earlier this week that even though the unidentified woman claimed that she had a second ticket for the peacock, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}