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I see both sides of the argument.

Animals are not people, and people should be able to ride in plane without being subjected to severe allergic attacks.

By the same token however, sticking your pet under a plane, where temperatures can vary to the extreme, animals can have trouble breathing, it is extremely noisy, and the pet is left under huge stress without its owner is also undesirable. Although there aren't tons of numbers on this, its estimated up to 1% of animals travelling in baggage either die or are injured.

I think ideally airlines on busy routes would have designated no animal planes, or if that isn't possible, try and compartmentalize the people with pets to certain areas of the plane.

Also all i can say as a pet owner is that i would never subject any of my pets to baggage. I'll probably never ever fly with them, but if i did i would never put them in baggage, and if that wasn't possible i wouldn't go. Although pets are not people, the fear they go through is no different than someone tearing a 2/3 year old away from its family and dumping it in a hot/cold extremely noisy compartment.