What we resolve not to do on a plane in 2020

CNN — Emotional support animals running wild in the aisles, rogue travelers pretending to be airplane pilots and drunken passengers causing emergency landings: last year was defined by some pretty dodgy airplane passenger behavior. Courtesy Megan Peabody Pet travel solution: Peabody suggests one solution to the controversy surrounding animals on airplanes would be to have specially-designated flights for pets and their owners: "It would be incredible if there were certain flights, or even an airline, designated for people traveling with animals," she says Courtesy Megan Peabody Meet Hamlet, the emotional support pig Prev Next The result? There have been reports of emotional support animals attacking flight attendants, defecating and urinating on board, aggravating other passengers’ allergies and unwittingly causing emergency landings. Whether you’re actually more likely to get drunk on an airplane is debatable – in November 2019, Paulo Alves, global director of aviation health at MedAire, told CNN Travel that claim is a “myth.” Specialized travel doctor Richard Dawood suggests one of the biggest issues is dehydration. In October 2019, Jessica Van Meir was on board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Washington, DC when she received a series of inappropriate messages via the airline’s inflight messaging service.