Monkey business on Frontier flight a 'misunderstanding'

The owner of a four-year-old marmoset insists he meant no monkey business when his emotional support animal caused alarm on Frontier Airlines Flight 1087 from Ohio’s John Glenn Columbus International Airport to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas last Tuesday. Video released Thursday shows Jason Ellis, barefoot and in shorts, going through the security checkpoint in Columbus with his monkey, Gizmo, on his shoulder. But, according to KTRK and other news outlets, Ellis neglected to let the airline know Gizmo would be joining him on the flight as a registered emotional support animal. A flight attendant saw Gizmo peeking out of Ellis’s shirt during the flight and asked for proof to confirm that the animal was a service animal, but Ellis couldn’t access his paperwork on board. Police were called to meet the plane at McCarran after reports that the monkey was “loose” during the flight, but an airline spokesman later confirmed that the monkey was never actually loose in the cabin, was “always with the passenger it was travelling with,” and was indeed a certified service animal.<br/>