Delta Airlines Declared as Best Airline Despite Harsh Pet Policy

Delta Airlines of US has been declared as the best airline of US by Fodor’s travel. Fodor’s is one of the most reputed awards in the travel industry. This ranking comes after the Skytrax ratings wherein American carriers made a despicable show, not being present in the top 20 ranks in any of the rating categories.

With this award, Delta airlines seems to have captured some space. Fodor has given this rating on the basis of the age of its fleet and the number of flights offered. Another important factor which led Delta to the top slot is that of punctuality. Delta has been “the most” punctual of all, as per the DoT statistics.

Not only has Delta been ranked first on above mentioned parameters, it also the second best when it comes to over-sized person travel and pets category. Their seats are wider than those of most of the other carriers but are not as wide as those of the jetBlue airlines.

With respect to their pets policy, it allows carriage of birds apart from cats and dogs in cabin so long as these can be carried in a kennel which can be kept beneath the seat.

However, the airline had made changes to its pets carriage policy in December 2018. Some of the main provisions of this policy change were:

    a)      Complete ban on carriage of service and support animals that are less than 4 months of age.

  b)      Complete ban on carriage of emotional support animals on flights of more than eight hours

duration.

These restriction come into play for all Delta Airlines air tickets done for travel on or after February 1, 2019.

The policy has invited criticism citing the plight of those people who depend on these animals for travel. Especially, the senior citizens and those who need these animals as a part of their medical care are likely to be affected.

The airline, however, maintains that this policy will actually introduce more safety and healthy practices on the flights.

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