[Sarann]

There was a dog in a woman's purse in the seat behind me on an International flight. My family and I had 3 seats. The crew were aware the dog was there, in fact they agreed to photograph the dog with the passenger using the passenger's phone and the dog was in the passenger's LAP during flight. As I am allergic to dogs, I was starting to sneeze, my eyes were red and swelling up. The plane developed a problem and had to return to Atlanta so we could change planes. When we landed, I reported to the airline podium that I could not sit with this dog near me on the next plane they were putting us on. The Delta agent paged the dog owner and moved her for the next flight but by the time I arrived in Brussels I was miserable with swollen eyes. I want to know why this dog was on board and why the cabin crew happily permitted it. They didn't report the woman upon landing either. Besides it being allergenic, it was unsafe. There is no place to put a dog under a seat in business class. How is it that my purse had to be put up in the overhead bin because of safety regulations but the dog owner was permitted to sit with an animal in her lap? I'm not against animals, and if we disregard that I'm allergic to dogs, on an International long haul flight, where was this dog supposed to relieve itself? I write a complaint and received an email that they will try to get back to me in 10 days. Ha! That's too long -- sorry.