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Some airlines let emotional support animals (dogs included) on planes... A friend of mine who has a service dog says its a real problem for legitimate service dog/handler teams. An emotional support animal is someone's pet, and that person has a note from a psychiatrist saying they need the emotional support animal. The note can be used for the dog owner to have a dog in a no-aminals apartment, for example. However, given that this is just a regular old pet, while they're wonderful they have no extensive obedience training. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to train a service dog. If you put your regular pet on an airplane it might get scared or be extremely stressed by the loud noises. If it reacts very badly - a guy sitting next to a someone with his large emotional support dog on his lap got bitten when the dog freaked out - then that reflects poorly on service animals, because people assume that's what they are, and people with disabilities have to deal with the consequences.