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Pets To Get Their Own Airline This Summer

April 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM | by kjb | 1 Comment

Next time you go away on vacation, you may want to think twice about leaving Fido at home. Previously, bringing your puppy or kitty along wasn’t the best idea, as the cargo hold under your seat isn’t the most comfortable or safe place for pet travel. Not to mention that flying your pet somewhere just adds another fee to your already pricey ticket. However, your furry friends may soon have an airline to call their own.

Pet Airways, "The First Airline with Four Leg Room" is looking to take-off as the first airline exclusively dedicated to pets, and wants to make sure animals travel safely towards their final destination. All the “pawsengers”—their words not ours—will travel in the main cabin of the plane, and will be checked every 15 minutes to make sure they are doing well and that their crates are secure. Fares look to start around $150, but it's not totally clear how far you'll get for that price.

You can’t book flights just yet, but they’re saying that spring or summer 2009 will be when the first turbo-prop planes will take off. Just drop your pet off at the airport a couple hours before the flight, and the airline will take care of the rest. They’ll make sure your pooch gets bathroom breaks before and after the flight, but we don’t think they’ll be any in-flight entertainment. Their initial route will make stops in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Baltimore, and New York.

This new airline is already making a splash on Twitter where it has over 900 followers, and seems to be doing a good job at responding to inquisitive users. Most of their updates have just been replies, and they haven’t been providing any new information. They’ve been promising updates since February, but it looks like much of the same. April Fool's Day was last week, so we are still a little skeptical, but deep down we hope this is the real deal. Although, with their own airline, animals are just one-step closer to taking over.

Related Stories:
·Pet Airways [Official Site]
·Pet Airways: Forget Cargo, Your Pet Needs To Fly First Class [Jaunted]
·Pet Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: bradleyolin]

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  1. Jenna

    Jaunted Member

    oh my god.

    THE SMELL. I cannot even imagine how badly this cabin will smell. Airplane stink + vet office smell + dog breath + poo + pee... CAN YOU IMAGINE?
    April 6, 2009 at 5:32 PM

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