[camarors]

We recently traveled on AK Airlines and they didn't have a bag for our carseat. I understand that it may get a black mark from rubbing on the airplane or something. What I didn't expect is that they would put someone's dog (gross) next to my carseat and allow him to pee on it. It came out wet with dog urine and there were two-three dogs that went on that plane as I watched people pick them up.

There was no offer of compensation, just an agent who said we should have put it in a bag at the departing airport. I said they didn't have any, which he was surprised at. I had to take an entire day of vacation to take the carseat apart, wash it, and then wait for it to dry in the sun (thank goodness we had sun that day). Couldn't go anyway for an entire day while we waited for it to dry.

This problem could be easily solved by not allowing animals on planes. But I certainly expect that airlines are going to consider their human customers more important than animals and not put our baggage near the animals. Rather than worry about a bag for my carseat (none of our luggage have bags over them), they should have covered up the animal cage so when it decides to make a mess, it does it in the cage against its own cover so the one stinky wet thing is the dog and its cage, something for the dog owner to take care of instead of innocent me.

Apparently, AK Airlines feels that we should all cover our luggage, carseats, and anything else we might check in fear that a dog who is given more importance than the human passengers might pee on them.