Before passing judgment on this, I would need to know two pieces of information: what is the percentage of pets conveyed by United that died or were injured, vis-à-vis other airlines (it’s possible more died on United because more were transported on United), and does the method of conveyance on United differ from that of other airlines (e.g., are they more likely to put pets in cargo hold as opposed to crated in the passenger compartment).
Only know what the story says, have to go on and read it.
The article does give the stats, United does fly a significantly higher number of pets than the airline they used for comparison.
e.g., are they more likely to put pets in cargo hold as opposed to crated in the passenger compartment
Don’t think they get
“Crated in the passenger Comp” on any AL
Thank you for your question. Report must be from the reporter who said the MOAB was 70% of the first Nuc in Japan.
How many people died on United flights? !
Those pets wouldn’t move when told, they had to die!
Could be they are substantially cheaper on shipping pets, or served more airports than the competing airline , so they might be getting more business...and would therefore have more incidents.
The last time I transported my dog by air was in 1977. She wouldn’t speak to me for a week. Don’t recall which airline, but now we travel by motor home or not at all.