Boutique Air: The Worst Airline I Never Flew

Look, I know that title is sensationalist. But I’m sitting here in the Timberline restaurant at Denver for the third time today (thanks, Priority Pass!), having just returned from a botched attempt at boarding my Boutique Air flight to Alliance, Nebraska.

I’ve only ever heard good things about Boutique Air, so I was really happy to try them out on a decently priced $59 flight that lasted just over an hour. This, combined with my other option of paying a cool $400 for a ticket from Denver to Rapid City, meant that I felt extraordinarily lucky to be flying a semi-private plane to my destination.

(Narrator: It did not go well.)

Strike One

My problems began pre-flight, when I attempted to add my service dog to my…