| Flying with dirt cheap airline tickets while carrying your | | | | call the company to ask if there is some passenger |
| pet with you in the cabin may be a difficult task. This | | | | has made reservations for a pet or a service animal. |
| is because the majority of low cost airline companies | | | | When you have found a company that satisfy you |
| won't permit you to take your pet along with you in | | | | both in the terms of cheap airline tickets and for the |
| the passenger's cabin. | | | | permission to carry a pet along with you, you have |
| For instance if you want to fly with AerArann, Aer | | | | to know that there are some rules that apply to |
| Lingus, EasyJet, FlyBe, RyanAir, Sky Europe and | | | | your pet container. The most widely adopted rules |
| Zoom you could carry a pet but only in the cargo | | | | are: |
| area of the airplane as baggage, a solution that a lot | | | | * Your pet crate has to be small enough to fit |
| of caring pet owners find unsuitable. Some low cost | | | | underneath the seat in front of you without blocking |
| airline companies that will allow you to have your pet | | | | anyone trail to the main walkway and its basement |
| near are Air Berlin, Allegiant Air, BMI and Jet Blue. All | | | | has to be waterproof. |
| of them, anyway, will accept only small dogs and | | | | * Your pet container must be accurately stowed |
| cats, and all of them exclude other kinds of pets, like | | | | before the last passenger entry door to the airplane |
| birds or snakes. | | | | is closed for the airplane to leave the gate. |
| Please be aware that, anyway, even for those | | | | * Your pet container must remain accurately stowed |
| companies that don't accept any pet in the | | | | the entire time the airplane is moving on the airport |
| passenger's cabin, there is the strict rule to accept a | | | | surface, and for take off and landing. |
| dog that is servicing has seeing-eye, at least one for | | | | * You must follow flight attendant instructions |
| any flight. The reason for this exception is because a | | | | regarding the proper stowage of your pet container. |
| service animal is not to be considered as a pet but a | | | | In brief: |
| worker assisting a person with inabilities. The FAA | | | | - Be aware that not all companies offering dirt cheap |
| also rules that no health certificate must be required | | | | airline tickets will let your pet with you in the cabin. |
| for service animals. | | | | - Service animals do not fall in the pet category and |
| In fact to let a pet on a plane it is usually necessary | | | | thanks to their special status they can fly in the |
| to fill some kind of certificates, like a veterinary | | | | passenger cabin and don't have to be confined in a |
| certificate, or an acclimation certificate that will be | | | | cage or a container. |
| needed if traveling in extreme heat or cold conditions. | | | | - If you have allergies check if the company you |
| Also consider that if you don't fly domestic routes, | | | | want to fly with allows pets in the cabin. |
| there will possibly a need of a quarantine, which | | | | - Pet carriers have to submit to the general rules of |
| duration will differ from country to country. | | | | carry-on baggages and to some specific ones. |
| If you must be absolutely sure that no pet will be on | | | | So in the end if you look well and you have a bit of |
| a plane which you are considering to buy a ticket for, | | | | luck you can have both dirt cheap airline tickets and |
| if you are allergic to dander for instance, you should | | | | you pet in the cabin. |