skitchie

I don't blame you, and to be honest I wouldn't put my animal through it. We basically take the animal as well as any other oversize stuff through a separate screening system that I can't describe in detail because national security yada yada, they then get loaded separately into the bin. While your furry companion will almost definitely live, it's loud, turbulent, and cold in those bins, I wouldn't put an animal through that for a million dollars.

I don't work for a large airline so I'm gonna have to give you the cop out answer of 'every airline does it differently'. I will say a lot of the time we have an area in the bag room called 'default' where bags go if there's an error in the automatic system, it's perfectly possible on a busy day that bags get missed and don't get loaded that way.

I love that we're in a fishtank. Everyone looks at you doing stuff. I always wave at anyone I make eye contact with and if a plane's waiting to push because of BS reasons I give the passengers a little performance from the ground, I have a whole routine and everything.

EDIT: thanks for the gold, whoever you are. I'll make sure my next rendition of the Single Ladies dance goes out to you

A passenger was doing an AMA on Reddit and they had to hunt him down to get him on the plane

Depends on a bunch of different factors such as the plane type and route, but for your average narrowbody jet, it runs on average from 15-25 minutes.