[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by Bruce's_Mom

I just flew with Bruce for the first time a few weeks ago as work sent us off to Alaska for a couple months, and for that long a trip I would never leave him!!! It really was not stressful at all at first until I woke up to a very angry flight attendent holding him and thrusting him in my face...He managed somehow to get out of his carrier and run throughout the plan while I was napping. I then had to hold my finger over the "window" that he could open for 2 hours because I refused to duct tape him inside as the attendent suggested. He did not seem to stressed or anything until I took him out at the airport and a million people wanted to pet him.

You didn't fly America West by any chance, did you? That might explain our experience: We just flew back East with Eddie, and we did not get one foot on the plane before the flight attendant snapped: "That dog needs to stay in its carrier at all times!" My wife, loaded down with two carry-ons and the dog, said "I know. I hope ..." She was going to say "I hope he's not going to be a problem," when the flight attendant leaned over to a co-worker and said "Yeah, she better hope." That just amazed us that we paid $160 round-trip to fly with our dog, we follow all the rules, and we get an attitude like that.