Tuesday, January 08, 2013

The Legality of Restraining Air Passengers

I read this interesting article on the legal issues of restraining unruly passengers on airline flights. There are no international rule on the matter, the law of the land in which the airplane is registered will apply. Restraint may only be used if the passenger really is unruly and will not calm down when told to.

This only applies to human passengers. If the passenger is a dog, the general rule is that the dog needs to be restrained in a crate the whole flight. Dogs accept this, we are gentle beings. I do believe, however, that the dogs and many human passengers would be happy to see a dog not restrained, except for take off and landing, during the flight.

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