Passengers furious at being forced to give up Delta first-class seat – for a dog: ‘Nothing they can do’

Talk about a rough flight.

A Delta passenger barked mad after being forced to give up their plush first class seat for a fellow traveler – and downright furious to discover that the lucky VIP was a dog.

“I was upgraded to first this morning, only to be downgraded (to a worse seat than I previously had) only 15 minutes later. I asked the desk agent what was going on and she said ‘something changed,'” the crossover customer complained to Delta Air Lines Reddit earlier today.

“Okay, fine, I’m unhappy, but whatever, I board only to see this dog in my first class seat…And now I’m mad,” Redditor @ben_bob explained in a post that showed the oblivious animal taking the place that should have been his.

After contacting Delta Support, the frustrated flyer, who had been given an extra legroom bulkhead seat, was annoyed to be told that any human passenger might have to be moved to accommodate service animals – and that there is “nothing they can do” in these situations.

“There’s no way that dog has spent as much time with this airline as I have,” the outraged elite insisted, calling the mix-up an “absolute joke.”

“What’s the point of being loyal to this airline anymore, really,” they continued. “I have sat back when others have complained that this airline has been mistreating customers lately and declining in service, but I am also beginning to question my loyalty.”

Plenty of Delta travelers were quick to side with the jilted jetsetter.

“Notice how nowhere else in life do you see this amount of service animals? Go to the airport and all of a sudden they show up,” one mused.

“US exclusive. It doesn’t happen anywhere else. It’s American main character syndrome,” chimed in another.

“The dog is probably a Diamond Medallion 2 million miles,” one person joked, referring to a top tier Delta status.

“2 million miler good boi,” offered another.

“You forgot a 2 million miler faux ‘service dog,'” interjected one frustrated vacationer.

“I saw so many service dog vests flying yesterday. Like any other person had a service dog. It’s so out of control,” they moaned.

But while the situation may have been annoying, a Delta employee jumped into the conversation to remind everyone that priority is legally given to passengers with special needs and service animals in shoestrings.

“When I was in reservations, anytime people wanted the blocked seats, I had to inform them that Delta has the legal obligation to move them if a passenger with a disability requires it,” they said.

But travel expert Gary Leff sided with the human traveler in the doggo debate.

“I really don’t see Delta’s logic in bumping a first class passenger for accommodating a dog in the bulkhead,” Leff wrote at View from the wing.

“To be sure, airlines generally are required to provide reasonable accommodations under the Air Carrier Access Act, and one way they do that might be with bulkhead seats. But it certainly wouldn’t be necessary to change seats in last minute,” he explained.

Observing that “Delta seems to have gone to the dogs,” Leff noted other instances where a first-class passenger was booted to make room for an emotional support dog and four carry-on bags — as well as dogs sitting up and eating from tables in the so-called exclusive Delta One lounges.

“It’s a dog-eat-dog world,” mused one Redditor.

“And some of us wear Milk Bone underwear,” offered another, recalling a famous line from the TV show “Cheers.”