traveling your dog overseas

[notadamnclue 0]

here is the situation and I hope someone else has already went thru this.............my fiancé has a dog that needs to be flown here to the states from china....the pet traveling company that she contacted says they will not fly the pet dog in the summer months.... that she will have to wait till fall weather comes to fly pet ... does or would anybody know of a pet traveling company that will fly pets in the summer and it needs to be a very good company that will take care of the pet on this travel........I have heard of some bad pet traveling companies out there that don't take care of the pets as in travel any info would be welcomed

[chaine1 116]

Hi there,

I've flown several dogs into the USA, and normally it is the airlines' policy about not flying dogs (or anything living that may be place in luggage holds) during the summer months. I've never used a company, but don't understand why they would have a blanket policy to not fly pets in the summer. I flew two dogs out of Kuwait in July, when temps were well over 120 F.

Lufthansa will fly pets in the summer, but it may depend on the aircraft used. Look for airlines that say their cargo holds are air conditioned.

Good Luck!

[pro_star 52]

Some airports as well will not fly pets in the summer months as it is too hot waiting on the Tarmac/in the hold/what have you.