If you were reaching to bring a hedgehog on to a flight as a kind of emotional support, you may have to be compelled to re-examine.

Hedgehogs are enclosed on a illegal list - as airlines get harder over soaring demands from anxious passengers desirous to travel with "emotional support animals".

United Airlines say requests have up by seventy fifth to seventy six,000 in a very year.

The airline recently had to show down letter of invitation to travel with a peacock.

But a representative for the airline says that even before shunning the peacock at Newark aerodrome within the United States of America, there had been recognition that the foundations required to be tightened.

This was attributable to a "significant increase in aboard incidents involving these animals", she added.

United aforesaid that last year there had been a rise of over thirty,000 passengers desirous to travel with emotional support pets.

Banned animals
From next month, there'll be harder rules on animals carried by passengers to produce support or as a part of medical aid - though this may not have an effect on animals like guide dogs for the blind.

As well as forty eight hours' notice and a letter from a mental state skilled, passengers can currently have to be compelled to show proof that their animal has been "trained to behave properly in a very public setting".

United also will keep an inventory of illegal animals, together with hedgehogs, ferrets, insects, rodents, snakes, spiders, reptiles and "non-household birds" below review.

From next month, Delta also will be stepping up efforts to "protect" its passengers, when Associate in Nursing eighty four increase in on-board animal "incidents".

A statement from the airline says this can be attributable to "serious safety risks involving undisciplined animals in flight".

The airline says it'll still carry concerning 250,000 guide dogs or different service animals annually.

But Delta has baby-faced requests to hold "comfort turkeys", possums and snakes. And it says employees have baby-faced biting, growling and barking animals, additionally as excreting and evacuation.

Virgin Atlantic says that it solely permits dogs to be carried as emotional support pets.

British Airways, meanwhile, says that it's had no increase in requests - as a result of it does not permit passengers to bring any emotional support animals on board.