United Airlines can’t seem to get a doggone thing right.
The beleaguered airline experienced it’s third dog -related mishap this week when it loaded a puppy on the wrong flight on Thursday.
Flight 3996 from Newark to St. Louis had to be diverted after officials noticed a pup had somehow been “mistakenly” loaded on, an airline spokesperson said Saturday.
The plane had to make a stop in Akron, Ohio to drop off the pet and reunite it with its owners.
“We chose the fastest option to reunite the dog with his family,” United spokesperson Natalie Noonan told The Post Saturday.
The passengers were provided compensation for their inconvenience, Noonan said, without providing additional details.
While the flight should have averaged two hours, following the pup’s itinerary turned into a four-hour marathon for passengers, who spent roughly an hour and a half on the ground in Akron, a spokesperson for flight-data company Flightradar24 told the Washington Post.
At least this mix-up wasn’t as horrific as Monday’s incident where Kokito, a 10-month-old French bulldog, died aboard a flight to LaGuardia after an attendant ordered it be placed in the overhead bin
United released a statement saying the flight attendant didn’t realize the dog was in it’s carrier when it was placed in the overhead bin, and didn’t hear the owners warnings.
The Queens District Attorney’s Office said they were looking into the dog’s death.
The next day, a German shepard named Irgo was sent to Japan instead of Kansas City, Missouri. Irgo was reunited with his human family Thursday evening.