) gets an emailed Press Release about a Pet-Only Airline. I need to find out more. Unfortunately, traveling with pets, you really are at the mercy of the Airline, staff that is. For some strange reason, I often end up on flight with the biggest dog hating crew. Even splurging on 1st Class does not help either. Their mission for the flight is to take turns patrolling my isle. Gasp, that one of my Chihuahuas is out the bag. Are there Air Marshall’s standing by, just in case, one 3 lb licking Chihuahua manages to sneak on my lap, for a nap. PLEASE ! I paid ( $100 each way is average ) for them to be aboard. Focus on getting the kids to stop screaming instead ?
( HRM the Queen’s Corgi’s get to ride in style ! dog haters are banished to the dungeons, we likey that idea. )Pet Airways of Delray Beach, Florida, is launching the first pet-only airline with flights beginning on July 14, 2009. Their mission is to make pet travel experience more comfortable and enjoyable for both “pawsengers” and their human families.
Dan Wiesel, President/CEO of Pet Airways, “Currently, most pets traveling by air are transported in the cargo hold and are handled as baggage. The experience is frightening to the pets, and can cause severe emotional and physical harm, even death. This is not what most pet owners want to subject their pets to, but they have had no other choice, until now.”
The pets will be under the care of trained Pet Attendants and fly in the main cabin that is fully-lit and climate-controlled. They will be boarded and de-boarded from planes as quickly as possible and never left in the cold or heat. Depending on transit time, toilet facilities, food and water will offered during stops.Owners can book pet travel on the web and track their pet’s travel progress. Initially Pet Airways will serve New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. They plan to expand nationwide with easily accessible pet check-on lounges to serve its pawsengers.
A study by the San Francisco SPCA, found that of the two million animals transported in the cargo holds of commercial airliners per year, approximately 5,000 are injured in transit. According to the Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS), “virtually every major airline has been cited and fined for repeatedly mishandling animals.” As a result of a lack of oxygen and temperature control in the cargo holds, the most common causes of death are suffocation and heat prostration.
With summer travel just around the corner, Pet Airways offers us an alternative to traveling with our pets. For further information including rates and My Paws Club go to http://www.petairways.com/
So, I visited their site…set price, which is good. Then I looked at the photo of the AIRCRAFT ? Could this plane make it to New York and back ?
Did somebody say “SNOOPY AND THE RED BARON ????”
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This is a cool service for those who don’t want to risk their pet traveling cargo. I give it 2 paws up.
I will continue to endure the wrath of the Airline Pet Haters….GULP.
THIS IS HOW PETS SHOULD TRAVEL, when the seatbelt light is off, obviously !
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