Travelling with pet on air transat
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ps....omg, i'm having nightmares about dying and having to get buried here!!!! OMG....can you imagine being here for eternity!!
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That is so true hun, i know this is just a stop gap for me. I can't believe all the drama i put myself through to get here, hindsight is a wonderful thing....
ps....omg, i'm having nightmares about dying and having to get buried here!!!! OMG....can you imagine being here for eternity!!
ps....omg, i'm having nightmares about dying and having to get buried here!!!! OMG....can you imagine being here for eternity!!
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Re: Travelling with pet on air transat
We're flying our 6 pets from Calgary to Gatwick on Wednesday with Air Transat .... will let you know how they do!
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Re: Travelling with pet on air transat
Can anyone tell me how much it costs to fly a dog back from Canada to UK please
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A friend of ours is flying back on 28th Jan, Calgary to Manchester ( I think it's Manchester? ) and it has cost $1500 for their dog + the treatments required...tick/tapeworm, form signing from the vet for customs etc, a further couple of hundred dollars
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omg that is so expensive...why is it so much when they travel in the cargo?
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Are they using a pet cargo service?
Just book the flight for your pet over the phone, do the little bit of paperwork required, bring said mutt to the airport yourself...it cost us a little short of £300 to bring our pooch over.
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Re: Travelling with pet on air transat
I think some airlines require you to use a pet transport service.
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Yes, they do, Canadian Affair/Air Transat require a pet agency to book on your behalf, they won't let you book directly with them.
I do believe Air Canada will let you book directly with them and this cuts out the cost of an agency fee but then you pay a higher price for your own flight than you would with Air transat so it's just a case of comparing and seeing which works out the cheapest, we found it cheaper to pay the high cost for our cat's flight with the cheaper airline because our flight was only a couple of hundred dollars
I do believe Air Canada will let you book directly with them and this cuts out the cost of an agency fee but then you pay a higher price for your own flight than you would with Air transat so it's just a case of comparing and seeing which works out the cheapest, we found it cheaper to pay the high cost for our cat's flight with the cheaper airline because our flight was only a couple of hundred dollars
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Re: Travelling with pet on air transat
Are they using a pet cargo service?
Yes as it's with Air Transat and they won't let you book direct, you have to use a pet travel agency
Just book the flight for your pet over the phone, do the little bit of paperwork required, bring said mutt to the airport yourself...it cost us a little short of £300 to bring our pooch over.
Yes as it's with Air Transat and they won't let you book direct, you have to use a pet travel agency
Just book the flight for your pet over the phone, do the little bit of paperwork required, bring said mutt to the airport yourself...it cost us a little short of £300 to bring our pooch over.
Our flight back for three of us on the same flight as the cat cost a total of 490 pounds, with Air Transat in economy class.......I fully expected to see our cat through the partition curtain, sitting in Premium, sipping champagne for the cost of her flight