A flight attendant on a Frontier Airlines flight recently announced during boarding that someone smuggled a dog onboard – and asked all the passengers for help by snitching on the person with the stowaway pet.
She said,
So someone in here has a dog aboard. “Listen folks, we are not leaving until we find…what we’re looking for…If you think it’s your neighbor…Go ahead and snitch on them.
Passengers look around, whisper and the cabin starts searching for who’s done it. The specific flight this happened on isn’t clear.
FRONTIER JUST TURNED A PLANE INTO A FULL-BLOWN LOCKDOWN – AND TOLD PASSENGERS TO “SNITCH ON YOUR NEIGHBOR” UNTIL THEY FOUND A HIDDEN DOG
Mid-flight boarding turns into chaos when a Frontier flight attendant gets on the intercom and announces that someone smuggled a dog… pic.twitter.com/OHDz8H69xS
— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) December 9, 2025
Some people are asking how the ‘hidden dog’ made it past security, but that’s not an issue. TSA allows pets through checkpoints. You remove the pet from the carrier and send the carrier through X‑ray while keeping the animal under your control. Clearing security has nothing to do with whether the animal is approved to fly, paid (in the case of a pet in cabin rather than a service animal) and properly included on the manifest.
Back in 2018, Frontier kicked an emotional support squirrel off a flight. The owner threatened to sue.
Frontier’s soul cousin Spirit once forced a college student to flush her emotional support hamster down the toilet since they don’t allow hamsters.
We had pushed back at New York JFK when this was discovered. Delta turned the plane around and we went back to the gate. The passenger hadn’t done the paperwork with the airline for a service animal. This was very much not a service animal. We waited while they handled the paperwork, the woman reboarded with her dog, and then we took an even longer delay while we waited to refuel since we’d burned some with the taxi out and back (and the jet fuelers had a shift change).
Snitching on your neighbor isn’t the best way to handle any of this. It’s a recipe for harassment and conflict at a time that tensions in the cabin remain elevated compared to pre-pandemic times. Focusing passenger ire at one person onboard could escalate once they’re in the air. A better announcement might have been,
If you have an animal not yet verified with the gate, press your call button now so we can resolve it quickly.
If you were on this flight and heard that announcement, would you have hit the call button, called someone out, or just kept your eyes on your own row and waited for the crew to handle their own job? I’d probably have kept my eyes on the passenger encouraging them to fess up, to be honest.
I will play the liberal (hi @1990) here: Hey what is the big deal, animals have human rights. Why should we have to register and fill out paperwork. Dogs have rights. Is this something Ronald Strump is demanding? Has any of the Circus Court judges appointed by the auto-pen, err Joe Biden, stopped this travesty. I hear the orange haired beast eats dogs and is rounding them up for a huge meal.
OK, why didn’t the person just follow the rules and fill out the paperwork?
I just know that Spirit and Frontier provides hours of entertainment on Youtube. Once both are gone and out of business it will dampened the number of highly amusing airport and airplane meltdowns. Both airlines should begin to find a way to monetize those videos.
Ahh, taking a page from the Stasi playbook. ‘Report on your neighbors!’ Sheesh, we really took our eye off the ball and lost the Cold War after all, didn’t we. Literally emulating the horrendous policies and methods of failed authoritarian regimes. Shameful.
And, thanks, I guess, for admitting you’d ‘passively’ snitch, Gary. So much for ‘laissez-faire’ libertarianism. See, this is what happens in-practice… it’s not ‘live and let’s fly’ (shout-out, Matt), in reality, it’s more ‘do as I say, not as I do.’
Oh, also, good news, everyone! We’re now calling them ‘hell-hole’ countries, not ‘s-hole.’ Also, we’re all doing ‘great,’ higher prices, lower paychecks, right, @Michael Mainello? *stirring the pot*
Gary, I hope you let my first post go thru. @1990, I wrote it before any comments were released. I was correct about the tone of your response before you even posted it. Oh hell-hole or s-hole, both are appropriate. Most of Africa looks the same or worse than it did 1000 years ago. You should research the average IQ or legal marrying age in Somalia. But I am sure that you will blame the orange haired monster. You are such a single dimensional intellect.
Things will be better in the future when there are only robotic dogs.
@Michael Mainello — You knew not to write #45/47’s name, but forgot that #46’s name would also be auto-moderated. Either way, I can attest, Gary usually posts whatever we choose to say, however controversial, or not. I applaud him for doing that. He’s more of an actual ‘free speech absolutist’ than those who claim to be (*cough* Elon *cough*).
As to filing paperwork, yeah, that’s fine, all within-reason. If it’s too onerous, then it defeats the purpose. If it’s not effective enough, then problems of a different kind.
As to Africa, clearly, you haven’t been, and that’s on you, because it’s a lovely continent, filled with impressive people, sure, problems like anywhere else, but no need to denigrate them. Your supremacist tendencies are showing again it seems. Not even subtle this time.
Now, where’s @Not Scott for the assist. That guy’s full-blown. Mask-off. Hard-R.
@1990 – True, I have not been to Africa and I have met many great people from the continent. BTW-The believe black Americans are lazy (there words, not mine) Really the common denominator to the hell-hole or s-hole is the islamic cult. So you are correct and I apologize.
“Professor” @1990 hit us with the “Good news, everyone!” Niceee.