Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat

Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat. Blame America’s pet obsession to their love of their furry friends and wanting them to travel with them….in recent years, more members of the airline companies are embracing dogs and cats on board.

Midwest Airlines may be the leader in pet travel, letting select dogs sit in the same seats as humans. Still, other airlines are relaxing their pet policies by letting smaller cats and dogs come into their cabin areas.

Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat and about a year ago, Midwest began allowing certain “celebrity” dogs that appear in canine competitions, shows or advertisements to sit in seats.Personally I would rather have a dog sit next to me than a talkative traveler.

“They are just passengers with four legs instead of two,” said Susan Kerwin, who oversees the pet program at Midwest Airlines.

The pet travel frenzy has spurred a creation of an airline service catering exclusively to pets. This month, Pet Airways, the nation’s first pet only airline, will begin flying in five major cities, including New York and Los Angeles, California.

Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat and if you have a larger pet, it beats placing your loved one in the base of a planet’s belly where the oxygen isn’t good and neither is the pressure. It is a great alternative to shipping larger pets in the cargo area of a plane, where there have been pet injuries and even deaths. Chart: Compare some of the common airline fees

“The owners can check a bag with them,” explained Alyse Tognotti, a spokeswoman for Pet Airways. “Or if they have a special blanket or toy, basically anything that will take stress out of traveling.”

On each Pet Airways flight, the price of your ticket include: potty breaks and experienced animal handlers checking up on the animals every 15 minutes. The best part is that a nervous owner can track their pets online.
Southwest Airlines new pet policy as of May, 2009, and it will allow you to fly small dogs and cats to travel in the cabin area. The pets must sit in an approved kennel that fits under the seat.

Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat and each year, airlines transport hundreds of thousands of pets in the cargo and cabin areas.

Continental has reported moving 270,000 pets last year in cabin and cargo. That is three times the number moved before the airline’s pet program officially kicked off eight years ago.

Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat even though the Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t have restrictions on whether animals can be in the cabin area. But of course, airlines must allow service dogs for the disabled on board. Only cats and dogs are allowed in the cabin areas on most of the airlines. In the cargo area, other pets like rabbits, birds and lizards can be stowed.

Costs of flying your furry friend ranges from $75 to nearly $300 each leg. It’s a hefty price tag, but profit-bleeding airlines are happy to offer the option.

Pets owners are racking up frequent flier miles at Midwest, Continental and JetBlue.

If you don’t want to fly with some one’s pet…try Frontier Airlines. They have banned pets from the cabin area because officials said pet allergies are common among their customers.

Dogs Can Fly-Fly With Your Dog or Cat but back in 2008, the American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology wrote letters to Congress expressing concern about pets riding in the cabin area after some patients became ill from their flights. The letters didn’t go very far, officials stated.

Being an animal lover…what happens when you sit next to someone who has a pet…as much as I brush my dog, I always find a dog hair on me.

Airlines say they have had few allergy conditions on board, therefore, the airlines limit the number of pets in the cargo area to about five. Aircraft’s are disinfected and cleaned routinely, so dander and hairs aren’t a problem, airline officials stated.

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