Posted on 06/22/2009 6:50:10 AM PDT by Schnucki
The flag carrier, and its regional airline Jazz, will allow customers to book a space under their seats for a pet for travel from July 1. They will pay $50 (£30) for a domestic flight in North America or $100 for international flights.
Owners must stow pets in leakproof carriers weighing in total no more than 10kg (22lb). A maximum of four pets will be carried per flight. An Air Canada spokesman said it would consider the needs of passengers with allergies when allocating seats. The carriage of pets is not allowed on flights to or from Britain.
Next month sees the launch of Pet Airways, an airline that will fly cats or dogs between five US cities. Pets will travel in a Beechcraft 1900 that can hold 50 animals, two pilots and one pet attendant.
An increasing number of Britons plan on taking their dogs on holiday this summer. Bookings from Britons wanting to holiday with their pets are up by 150 per cent at the hotels of Best Western, which offers customised dog-beds and fine dining options from its canine menu. In Britain, the Pet Travel Scheme (Pets) allows pets entering or returning the country to pass freely without having to undergo the usual six-month quarantine period.
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Your Pit Bull will fit nicely under the seat in front of you.
Barking dogs on a airline flight?
At last!
Something to drown out that screaming infant in 11C.
Gives new meaning to “alligator bag.”
Too bad. Big newfie baby here would take up three seats.
Just wait until somebody dies on a doggy flight because of an allergic reaction...
You’ve always been able to travel with pets in the cabin on US carriers as long as the crate will fit under the seat. I haven’t heard of anyone dying, or even complaining, yet.
$50? That’s cheap!
American charges $100 (Delta charges $150) for one-way under-the-seat pet bookings.
How long until the pooch under the seat in front of you gets explosive diarrhea?
(If you saw my poker hands this weekend you would understand why I just know it’ll happen to me...)
It is crappy enough to fly now without someone actually bringing a pet onto the sardine cans they call airliners. I remember when you could be comfortable while flying without buying first class.
Sometime within the last two years, a passenger across the aisle from me on a regional jet had two cats in a cat carrier. She had apparently purchased a seat for the kitty-box, and strapped it in said seat. I don’t recall the airline (probably either United or Air Canada) or whether the flight was within USA or Canada ...
News to me...
See #17. Delta, Northwest, United and American permit pets as hand luggage within the US. I never fly US Air, but I expect they do too.
I just KNEW the cat carrier would be here.
LOL
LMAO. And I like cats! That’s just wicked funny.
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