Airport workers who had been bringing a passenger to her Delta Airways flight misplaced her canine on the Atlanta Airport, aka the busiest airport on the planet, on August 18, Friday.
In line with CNN, the passenger, named Paula Rodriguez, was about to go on a two-week trip in California along with her six-year-old canine, Maia.
Maia flew within the cabin with Rodriguez. And their flight included a layover on the Atlanta Airport earlier than arriving at their vacation spot.
Nonetheless, upon their arrival in Atlanta, border drive workers knowledgeable Rodriguez that she “didn’t meet the necessities” of her vacationer visa, CNN reported.
Rodriguez’s vacationer visa was cancelled and workers advised Rodriguez that she must return again to the Dominican Republic on the subsequent flight.
And that is the place the issue began – Rodriguez needed to spend the evening in a detention middle, however with out her canine.
“They referred to as a Delta agent, who took Maia from me. I began asking questions on the place she’d be spending the evening, and advised him she’d been in lots of misery on the flight. After we’d received there [to Atlanta] she’d puked with misery and had diarrhea,” Rodriguez recounted.
Rodriguez stated that the workers reassured her that her pooch can be effectively taken care of in a facility with skilled workers. She continued, “It wasn’t my want, however I understood. There was nothing I might do, and I trusted him.”
The following day, Rodriguez’s flight again residence was scheduled for 10:20 AM. Border workers gave Rodriguez directions saying they’d decide her up from the detention middle one hour and 45 minutes earlier than her flight.
Rodriguez requested that she wanted extra time to take care of her pooch. However workers reassured her saying, “Let’s go to the gate, she needs to be there.”
When Rodriguez arrived, her canine was nowhere to be discovered. She stated, “A supervisor got here and stated they had been on the lookout for her, that she needs to be within the facility however they didn’t have time to look and I ought to get on a aircraft.”
“I began panicking and stated, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t get on once you’re telling me you don’t know the place my canine is.’”
So, an hour later, Rodriguez hopped on the subsequent flight as an alternative, leaving for Punta Cana. The canine proprietor thought the incident was a easy mixup and Maia could be along with her on her flight.
Sadly, Maia didn’t present up and Rodriguez needed to depart the US with out her pooch as a result of she didn’t have a visa.
Upon touchdown at Punta Cana, Rodriguez stated, “I referred to as Delta, Atlanta airport, even San Francisco. I filed each declare doable. I referred to as all of the shelters and veterinary surgical procedures I might in Atlanta. I used to be in agony for 2 days with no reply.”
Two days after the incident, a Delta consultant referred to as Rodriguez and defined what occurred.
“He stated that she was being transported [to the plane] on the runway, and workers had opened her kennel, and she or he had received out of the automobile and escaped into the center of the runway,” she advised CNN.
She continued, “Planes had been taking off and coming in. He stated they chased her however she ran sooner and sooner and she or he escaped. That’s all I do know.”
Since Rodriguez can’t fly again to the US and not using a visa, her mom flew to Atlanta in her place as an alternative.
In line with USA Right now, the airline is internet hosting Rodriguez’s mom freed from cost whereas the seek for Maia continues.
Sadly, three weeks after the incident, Maia remains to be lacking. Rodriguez stated, “I’m in agony. I’ve been dwelling a nightmare since Friday, figuring out my child is on the market someplace scared, or may be injured. All types of ideas come into my head and I can’t do something. Each minute seems like a day.”
In line with USA Right now, Delta opened an inside investigation on how Maia was in a position to escape from her provider.
Moreover, a Delta spokesperson advised CNN, “Delta groups have been working to find and reunite this pet with the client and we stay in contact with the client to supply updates.”
