A female traveller was recently banned from taking a large “emotional-support peacock” on board a United Airlines flight.
United Airlines denied a woman’s efforts to bring a peacock onto a flight departing Newark Liberty International Airport.
Ventiko, a photographer and performance artist in New York, had offered to buy the bird its own plane ticket.
Nonetheless, United Airlines confirmed that the exotic animal was denied a seat because it “did not meet guidelines for a number of reasons, including its weight and size.”
“We explained this to the customer on three separate occasions before they arrived at the airport,” a United Airlines spokesperson said to The Washington Post.
After nearly six hours at the airport, Ventiko and her exotic bird decided to take to the road and drive across the US.
The peacock, named Dexter, has its own Instagram account.
“I have never left the house without having at least one person react,” Ventiko told a local culture website.
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