Pet Jet Cleared For Take Off
April 18th, 2009
Looks like Captain Rover’s going to clear that mountain by a whisker!
Calling all pets: put July 14th in your diaries for it’s a very special date. No, it’s not your annual bath. It marks the first flight made by the world’s first pet airline.
The Sun Sentinel is reporting that flights will begin between New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles - the most popular destinations for American pets according to extensive market research.
Gone are the traditional rows of uncomfortable foam seats - they’ve been ripped up and replaced with rows of uncomfortable pet crates. So basically it’s just the same as traveling in the cargo hold except the lighting’s good enough for Sudoku puzzles and there are flight attendents on hand to administer Pedigree Choice Cuts Beef & Barley and Friskies Sea Food Favorites on demand (or when the trolley’s wheeled out). Vegan and kosher meals on request.
From what I could ascertain from the Pet Airways website, they’re only accepting cat and dog passengers at present although since I wasn’t sure of this I decided to call them up with my voice disguised as a parrot to see if I could book a seat.
“I’m sorry but we don’t allow parrots on our planes,” was the reply. “They have a tendency to fly into the cabin and lecture the pilot on how to fly. Besides which if parrots start flying by plane they’ll lose their wings within a few generations and we don’t want to get blamed for that.”
Seems reasonable. I wonder if they accommodate tropical fish?
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