Woman kicked of flight after taking her pig on-board for emotional support Porky pig ... A woman was kicked off a flight because her pet pig was stinking up the cabin. Picture: Source: Supplied HER pot-bellied pet will be welcome on this aeroplane - when pigs fly! The New York Post reports a woman was booted from a US Airways flight because her pet pig was pacing around and stinking up the cabin, passengers said. Other travellers thought the woman was schlepping a dark-coloured duffel bag over her shoulder, when she boarded the plane, they said. But it turned out to be a 70-pound pot-bellied pig, which became "disruptive" before the plane took off, a spokesman for the airline told ABC News. Turns out, it wasn't a duffel bag. We could smell it - and it was a pig on a leash," passenger Jonathan Skolnik, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, told ABC. Skolnik, who was seated next to the pig, was furious about the woman's four-legged travel buddy. Emotional pig ... It's up to transportation officials to decide which animals are too disruptive to travel on an aeroplanes. Picture: Rob Phelps Source: Supplied "She tethered it to the arm rest next to me and started to deal with her stuff - but the pig was walking back and forth," he fumed. "I was terrified, because I was thinking I'm gonna be on the plane with the pig," Skolnik added. Crew members asked the woman and her porky pal to leave after passengers complained he was, well, hogging too much space, the airline spokesman said. The woman had brought the curly-tailed pet aboard as an "emotional support animal," the company rep said. Emotional support animals - including pigs - are allowed on flights, under federal rules drafted in 2012. Monkeys, cats and even miniature horses all qualify as "emotional support" animals. Pigs make great service animals for people allergic to dogs, experts and animal lovers have said. They are intelligent and tuned into their owners, experts say.