Pet Travel Expert

Yesterday, the new airline being marketed as the first pets-only airline, PetAirways, was on Good Morning America.  You can watch the video here.  In actuality, there was another pet airline that got similar buzz called Companion Air,  a few years ago. Unfortuantely, this Florida upstart, after a large amount of initial funding and press, was not able to get off the ground.

PetAirways will start flying pets from regional airports domestically beginning next week.  In the meantime, other pet friendly airlines like Continental and KLM continue to fly over 1000 pets a day. Continental Airlines and PetRelocation.com recently launched a press release announcing summer pet transport safety tips.

Also this week, the Canadian Lung Association started a full fledged campaign to get members and allergy sufferers to lobby Canadian airlines to offer pet-free flights.  This was in response to Air Canada's recent decision to begin allowing pets in-cabin on their flights in an effort to satisfy pet-loving customers as well as earn some extra revenue for the airline's struggling bottom line.  Air Canada doesn't seem to be budging on their pet-friendly stance, saying that the majority of airlines allow pets.

Like the temperatures, airlines shipping pets is starting to heat up.  I think it's a great step forward.  Pet owners -- and their pets -- who have long been hoping for more pet friendly, pet safe policies when flying pets serve the best opportunity to benefit from this new hot topic.