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.

Whether you’re planning to relocate. transport or travel with your pet in 2010, your pet moving needs are easily met with contacting Air Animal, a 1979 founding member of IPATA – the global pet trade animal transport association; along with IATA’s endorsement & appointment of Air Animal as an air cargo sales agency.

Unaccompanied live animal air cargo shipments on Air France are available from the USA to Paris, and any city in France.  Sorry, pets on Air France flights beyond Paris to their other global destinations are not currently available.  So talk to us to about the other options you have if you must fly Air France to Paris.

An alternative is to use KLM from the USA via Amsterdam to any of their global destinations. The Animal Hostel at Amsterdam Schiphol provides between flight care, comfort and state of the art accommodations.

As well as considering the use of Alitalia, the Italian national carrier, for flights to Rome, Milan & beyond.

Air Animal’s IATA endorsement/appointment also gives you access to Continental, Delta, United, American, Air Canada,  British Airways, Lufthansa, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, SAS, SwissAir, Emirates, Qatar Airways and the other IATA carriers.

2010 Pet Relocation, Transport, & Travel is easily accomplished with Air Animal, since 1977 providing mobile pet owners with both nationwide & worldwide animal transport services.