Pet Travel Blog

Air Canada announced on June 22, 2007 that they no longer will be allowing pets on their airline. The reason they stated for this was the need for more cargo space for the passenger luggage. What does this have to do with carrying on a pet? There has always been a limit to 2 pets per cabin. So if two pieces of carry on size luggage have to be checked, how much space does that take in the hold? This is not good news for people who need to ship or travel with their pets. Continental Airlines will accept a few pets in the cabin on most of their domestic U.S. routes. They have a ‘no checked pet’ policy but instead have an awesome ‘Quick Pack’ pet policy in their cargo division. They go above and beyond in every way to try and accommodate pets on their airline. Delta, United, American and Northwest Airlines have summer temperature embargoes for checked and cargo pets and can be complicated but they have not banned pets all together – yet.
So does Air Canada not want to take pets because of cargo space for baggage or because they just don’t want to do it anymore? If you have choice in the Air Canada market, I suggest you try and take another carrier-even if you aren’t traveling with a pet.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 24th, 2007 at 11:52 am and is filed under Comments by Barbara. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.