American Airlines reportedly announced new guidelines that restrict what passengers can pass off as emotional support animal. Passengers with trained service animals will not be impact by the protocol changes. Miniature horses trained to be service animals will still be allowed to fly, the paper reported. United and Delta Air Lines announced similar policy changes earlier this year, which tightened their regulations on emotion support animals by requiring passengers to provide special documentation for service animals trying to board a flight. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) introduced new legislation in April to correlate the definition of a “service animal” under the Air Carriers Access Act with that of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Source: Fox News May 15, 2018 08:03 UTC