moving interstate with pets
 

Hi there

Can anyone who has moved interstate with their pets give me any recommendations or rough costs?

I got the cats here therefore have no previous exerience of this. I have heard of jet pets, but websites keep mentioning taking pet as "extra luggage" which concerns me :huh:

Much appreciated :)

Karen

Re: moving interstate with pets
 

Hi Karen, I did just that when I moved from Melbourne to Perth, I rand a pet transport mob and the lady on the phone told me if someone was flying hire a cage and put the dog on as excess. We did the cage for the standard poodle was $35 excess baggage $10. She quoted $750 door to door. I said I could buy the dog a first class seat for that and she would have got a feed too... The dog was fine, I picked her up from the cargo section and it saved me a fortune. That was 14 years ago.. May be a bit more now. They look after them and it is way more cost effective. Suzette.

Re: moving interstate with pets
 

Jeez, big differenc eh! I just had visions of them getting thrown in with the luggage :blink:

K

Re: moving interstate with pets
 

We are moving our pets from Perth to Melbourne with Australian Air Express. It is going to cost $50, we drop them off at the AAE office near the domestic terminal 90 minutes before our flight and then pick them up at the other end after we have collected the rest of our bags.