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any airlines accept dogs over 100 pounds??
Size limitations
What you need to do is contact the airlines servicing the DR from Toronto. Contact the airlines and ask them if there are weight restictions. It is common for the airlines to have size limitations for the containers of the animals. It would be an indicator. If your pet fits in maximum size it may be able to travel.
Note: there are other requirements for pet travel and you should ask the airlines.
Regards,
PJT
What you need to do is contact the airlines servicing the DR from Toronto. Contact the airlines and ask them if there are weight restictions. It is common for the airlines to have size limitations for the containers of the animals. It would be an indicator. If your pet fits in maximum size it may be able to travel.
Note: there are other requirements for pet travel and you should ask the airlines.
Regards,
PJT
You may have to contact an animal transport company or fly an airline that accepts large pets in a climate controlled luggage area. There may also be a temperature exception depending upon what time of year you are flying. The other thing you may encounter is the airlines will not fly certain breads.
LTSteve
LTSteve
When I was still flying we would accept live animals and I never heard of a weight restriction but in these money-grabbing days, who knows?
Large aircraft have a live animal compartment with a separately controlled environment so the animal should not suffer distress during the flight but there should be someone to meet the animal on arrival as the loaders are less than useless and the animal may be left in it's box in the sun or in the cold if no-one pushes them.
If you are travelling with the dog they may allow you to be there during the load/offload.
Large aircraft have a live animal compartment with a separately controlled environment so the animal should not suffer distress during the flight but there should be someone to meet the animal on arrival as the loaders are less than useless and the animal may be left in it's box in the sun or in the cold if no-one pushes them.
If you are travelling with the dog they may allow you to be there during the load/offload.
I have never been weighed -- YYZ to AZS on WestJet
Mine was close to the limit - a pretty big Boxer + cage
Temperature limits are Nov1 to May1 or April 1 for accepting animals underneath.... no fly in the summer months
Mine was close to the limit - a pretty big Boxer + cage
Temperature limits are Nov1 to May1 or April 1 for accepting animals underneath.... no fly in the summer months
I can't comment on flights to/from Canada. But this info might be helpful.
I brought my two dogs down on Delta. One, with her kennel, was over 100 lbs.
To make it easier on the dogs, I drove (four hours) to Atlanta so that they would only have to make one flight.
Delta flies direct to JFK, so you might investigate them.
American Airlines was willing to take them as cargo. The cost was $2,000 per animal, and that was if I drove them to Miami (20 hours).
good luck.
I brought my two dogs down on Delta. One, with her kennel, was over 100 lbs.
To make it easier on the dogs, I drove (four hours) to Atlanta so that they would only have to make one flight.
Delta flies direct to JFK, so you might investigate them.
American Airlines was willing to take them as cargo. The cost was $2,000 per animal, and that was if I drove them to Miami (20 hours).
good luck.
good story... cargo is a killer - $$$$wise...... avoid it all costs
unless the dog looks like a shetland pony, you s/b OK..... especially if you travel off-peak
PS
I have driven PHL to MIA to shorten the flight for the dog..... nuts, maybe
unless the dog looks like a shetland pony, you s/b OK..... especially if you travel off-peak
PS
I have driven PHL to MIA to shorten the flight for the dog..... nuts, maybe
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
It actually might be better on the dog. It took mine nearly a week before they really got over the flight, and it was a very smooth flight that left and landed right on time. Planes are noisy enough for humans, so imagine what it is like for an animal whose hearing is so much more sensitive.
If I were only coming for a month at a time, I would probably leave my dogs at home.
As show dogs fly regularly, I would be interested in hearing what Acira has to say.
(What happened to Acira, anyway? Did she run off with Chip? I never see either of them commenting in the forum anymore?)
It actually might be better on the dog. It took mine nearly a week before they really got over the flight, and it was a very smooth flight that left and landed right on time. Planes are noisy enough for humans, so imagine what it is like for an animal whose hearing is so much more sensitive.
If I were only coming for a month at a time, I would probably leave my dogs at home.
As show dogs fly regularly, I would be interested in hearing what Acira has to say.
(What happened to Acira, anyway? Did she run off with Chip? I never see either of them commenting in the forum anymore?)
Ours come either for 5-6 months or forever..... REALLY $$$ to bring them on trips
Not sure there's that much trauma..... for a crate trained dog
Not sure there's that much trauma..... for a crate trained dog
Yes, she would probably have a melt down....she's never been crated...except when I picked her up at the airport in toronto....think I will just leave her at home 
although she comes everywhere with me...she watches my back!
although she comes everywhere with me...she watches my back!