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<blockquote data-quote="The Seeker" data-source="post: 1112841" data-attributes="member: 78048">Airline to allow giraffes on board as &#039;emotional support animals&#039;In a move welcomed by nervous fliers, the tiny Kenyan airline Icarus Air has announced that from March 1st it will allow passengers to be accompanied by a giraffe as an &#039;emotional support animal&#039;.FAA regulation 4A-29147 (Appendix G) currently restricts such animals to domestic pets including cats, dogs, small birds (excluding pigeons) and &#039;other such creature as shall be deemed to be of essential psychological reassurance to a passenger during his/her/its flight&#039;.It is this last phrase which Icarus Air successfully cited in a recent Supreme Court appeal, leading to the market-leading announcement. We understand that passengers will be permitted one giraffe each, up to a maximum height of 4 metres. Giraffes will have no duty-free allowance but will each be allowed a 22 kg carry-on basket of Arcacia leaves.The airline&#039;s CEO David Lankenua was highly enthusiastic about the new service.&quot;This is a very exciting day for our company,&quot; he told Spoofflé. &quot;It means that Icarus customers, even very scared ones, can now fly without a care, anywhere in the world.&quot;We asked Mr Lankenua for flight costs for a typical return trip from Nairobi to New York on one of the company&#039;s three Boeing 707 aircraft.&quot;Well,&quot; he said. &quot;Let&#039;s not get ahead of ourselves. A single flight to New York with a 3 metre giraffe would cost only $29.&quot;Mr Lankenua was reluctant to give a price for a return flight, adding only &quot;let&#039;s see how the flight to New York goes. If it gets there, we&#039;ll try to come back as well.&quot;<a href="https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.dm9zLh4GWxCj7S7We4TBRAHaFW&amp;pid=Api&amp;P=0" target="_blank"><img src="https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.dm9zLh4GWxCj7S7We4TBRAHaFW&amp;pid=Api&amp;P=0" alt="th?id=OIP.dm9zLh4GWxCj7S7We4TBRAHaFW&amp;pid=Api&amp;P=0" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>SPOOFFLE&#039; freshly baked satire <img src="https://www.mwcboard.com/uploads/default_biggrin.png" alt=":D" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Seeker, post: 1112841, member: 78048"] [B]Airline to allow giraffes on board as 'emotional support animals'[/B] In a move welcomed by nervous fliers, the tiny Kenyan airline Icarus Air has announced that from March 1[SUP]st[/SUP] it will allow passengers to be accompanied by a giraffe as an 'emotional support animal'. FAA regulation 4A-29147 (Appendix G) currently restricts such animals to domestic pets including cats, dogs, small birds (excluding pigeons) and '[I]other such creature as shall be deemed to be of essential psychological reassurance to a passenger during his/her/its flight'[/I]. It is this last phrase which Icarus Air successfully cited in a recent Supreme Court appeal, leading to the market-leading announcement. We understand that passengers will be permitted one giraffe each, up to a maximum height of 4 metres. Giraffes will have no duty-free allowance but will each be allowed a 22 kg carry-on basket of Arcacia leaves. The airline's CEO David Lankenua was highly enthusiastic about the new service. "This is a very exciting day for our company," he told Spoofflé. "It means that Icarus customers, even very scared ones, can now fly without a care, anywhere in the world." We asked Mr Lankenua for flight costs for a typical return trip from Nairobi to New York on one of the company's three Boeing 707 aircraft. "Well," he said. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves. A single flight to New York with a 3 metre giraffe would cost only $29." Mr Lankenua was reluctant to give a price for a return flight, adding only "let's see how the flight to New York goes. If it gets there, we'll try to come back as well." [URL='https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.dm9zLh4GWxCj7S7We4TBRAHaFW&pid=Api&P=0'][IMG alt="th?id=OIP.dm9zLh4GWxCj7S7We4TBRAHaFW&pid=Api&P=0"]https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.dm9zLh4GWxCj7S7We4TBRAHaFW&pid=Api&P=0[/IMG][/URL] SPOOFFLE' freshly baked satire [IMG alt=":D"]https://www.mwcboard.com/uploads/default_biggrin.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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