You’ve called the airlines to book your summer air travel to your favorite destination and have been told there is an embargo on pets traveling with you between 15 May & 15 September.  You’re looking for help, assistance, & alternatives.

With American, Delta and United not accepting pets for travel with ticketed passengers on the given dates, you’re frustrated and want solutions.

The phones are ringing off the hook, the website inquires are daunting and Air Animal is not your answer to leisure travel with your pet.

Air Animal is a pet moving service for relocating families using the scheduled passenger airlines air cargo products, both nationwide and worldwide.

Air Animal takes responsibility to move your pet as unaccompanied air cargo.  We provide origin pickup and destination delivery as well as managing the air cargo portion of the pet move.

For additional information, contact Air Animal Pet Movers (the relocating pets’ best friend since 1977) to learn more about we do.

Tuesday evening of this past week found me on the late afternoon flight to Houston to attend the Wednesday morning meeting of IATA’s LAPB (live animal & perishable board), the airlines committee governing the acceptance and transport of live animals on the scheduled passenger airlines and all cargo carriers.

With business tended to in the morning, a tour of NASA’s Space Center in the spring afternoon was most delightful.

A rushed taxi’s return to the Houston airport had me on the flight back to Tampa and home.

Note: Houston’s hotels were fully booked with European travelers waiting for the skies to clear of volcanic ash.

Lufthansa (LH) German airlines resumed operations on Wednesday, working on the backlog of cargo in its system. German airspace opened for flights with the Frankfurt (FRA) hub resuming activity.

All Airlines and Airport Authorities have just advised all UK Airports will be opened as of 10PM and will take some time to get flights and airports in order to accommodate our furry friends back to the families!

Great news and lets hope that this is the case.

Civil Aviation Authority will be monitoring the situation over the next few days and all aircraft will be safe to fly…

Thanks and kindest regards

Jayne Besbeech
Red Coat Pet Travel / UK

Howard Altman, a reporter with the Tampa Tribune called this morning to discuss if Air Animal had any pets stranded at European airports due to Iceland’s volcanic eruptions.

Pen, the pensive Basenji, owned by Paul Robinson of Lublianja, Slovenia, on leave from the University of Florida, recovered his dog on Saturday at the Frankfurt Animal Care Lounge rather than wait for the skies to open.

Air Animal’s pets scheduled to be shipped from Europe to the US are either in residence with the pet owners or are in safe, secure boarding with Air Animal’s EU service partners.

The Wall Street Journal carried a story this morning on the status of pets in transit in the UK and the EU.  It covered the care they are receiving in London, Frankfurt, and elsewhere while the airlines deal with the issues of volcanic ash in the atmosphere.  Our own Dr. Walter Woolf was quoted as an pet shipping industry expert.

Air space in Scotland and northern England will be opened from 7am tomorrow, NATS, the British air traffic control body, said this afternoon (April 19).

But the authority has kept its ban on flights over much of England until at least 7am tomorrow.

It said it was hopeful the ban could be fully lifted tomorrow.

Good Morning All (well not that good)!

Please be advised the London airports still remain closed.

Scotland and Ireland has been reapplied with the restriction of closure, until at least 19:00 hrs tonight!

http://www.nats.co.uk/

Kind regards
Jayne Besbeech

In the wake of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, many European airports in Europe remain closed, including the hub of Lufthansa Cargo at Frankfurt Airport. All flights of Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cargo to and from Frankfurt scheduled for today, Friday 16 April, have been canceled. Lufthansa Cargo expects severe disturbances until tomorrow afternoon. Lufthansa Cargo expects to reinstall its freighter operations on Saturday.

Information on the flight schedules is available at www.lufthansa-cargo.com

Lufthansa Cargo sincerely regrets the restrictions and will do the utmost to restrict inconveniences to a minimum.

Good Day All.

Please be advised that Heathrow and all UK Airports will remain closed until 19:00 this evening at this time!

Will keep sending updates through the day.

Thanks and kindest regards
Jayne Besbeech / Redcoat Animal Travel