Pets owing to different circumstances quite often travel with the owner in public transport, including the plane. To translate a dog on the plane, it is necessary to know and follow some rules.
Necessary data
Being going to go by plane in the company of the dog, follows when booking or directly upon purchase of the ticket, to warn the dispatcher about transportation of an animal. The main thing that it occurred necessary 36 hours prior to start of the necessary flight.Transportation of a dog in inside of the airbus is possible only from approval of airline and implementation of the following requirements: - obligatory escort of the pet by the adult passenger; - the weight of a dog with a shipping container (together) does not exceed 8 kg; - the pet surely has to accommodate in a cage or a special container. The container sizes for a canine friend should not be over 115 cm (length, height, carrying width in the sum). The passengers having live "luggage" in the form of pets are placed, as a rule, in removed places of the aircraft: about emergency exits, toilets. Transporting an animal on the plane, surely add a veterinary first-aid kit to the baggage. At height to the pet there can be anything if he travels in such a way for the first time.
Dog as baggage
When the throughput qualification (8 kg) in salon is exceeded, your doggie should rise in air in a cargo compartment. At such option the cage size (or a container) is selected so that to allow a dog both to rise freely to the utmost, and to turn freely in it. The bottom of a cage needs to be covered with the absorbing material. It has to be waterproof. Extremely attentively it is necessary to check correctness of paperwork for a dog. Only the AVIH encoding ("the animal in a hold" is read), but not the inscription SPEQ ("non-standard cargo" is read) with addition of DOG is correct. The computer system does not perceive comments in documents. And on planes the automatic system carries out distribution of cargoes in a baggage compartment on coding. In the airbus the loading of a dog is made according to special standards, in a separate compartment and on certain pallets, with the distance established from each other, etc. In case of the wrong coding the owner of a canine friend can have problems when loading baggage.
Payment of "flight" of a pet
Unfortunately, the weight of a dog and a container for its transportation is not considered according to the standard of free transportation of personal cargo. Payment for four-footed pets is always carried out at the rate of excess baggage. Free flight is provided only to the animals guides keeping the company and support to the owners in flight.
Necessary documents for transportation of a dog
For transportation of a dog on the plane the owner has to have a pet passport on an animal. It has to contain the following information: - a mark about necessary inoculations; - certificate of chipping; - information on processing against fleas and worms. Vaccination needs to be done not less, than in 30 days and no more, than in 12 months prior to flight. In 3 days prior to a departure it is necessary to receive in State Veterinary station the veterinary certificate No. 1-vt. It is given on the basis of the pet passport of a dog.