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Of U.S. Airlines, United had the highest rate of pet deaths, in 2017, 2016, 2015 [View all]
Source: CNN
By Brandon Griggs, 6:10pm ET.
For pets, the skies of United Airlines lately have not been so friendly.
It's not just the French bulldog that died on a Houston-to-New York flight Monday after a United flight attendant told its owners to put the dog in an overhead bin.
Data from the US Department of Transportation show that three times as many animals died on United flights last year than on all the other US carriers put together. As you can see from this chart, 2017 wasn't an exception.
United has had the highest rate of pet deaths of any US airline for the past three years.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/us/animal-deaths-airlines-united-trnd/index.html
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