We provide pickup and/or delivery to the 3 major airports in our area: Dulles, Washington National (Reagan), and Baltimore International. DULLES is our preference. Our over the road service area extends to: all Virginia, all Maryland, all Delaware, southern New Jersey, southeast Pennsylvania, and eastern West Virginia.
Airline personnel normally notify the pilot that there are live animals aboard. As an extra precaution, we ALWAYS type on the airbill, "NOTIFY PILOT OF LIVE ANIMALS ON BOARD". On ALL shipouts, we notify family and/or consignee when final boarding has taken place. We also check at arrival point as to conditions of arrival. On shipins, we notify family and/or consignee as to safe arrival and estimated time of final delivery.
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READ: page # 11 Our Testimonials VERY Enlightening
ARRIVING AT AIRLINE CARGO CHARGES:
MOST airlines base their charges upon volume or dimensional weight. This is arrived at by Tusing the MAXIMUM outside 3 dimensions. Continental Airlines base their
charges on ACTUAL weight of each pet AND kennel It is VERY important to have exact m easurements. NO guessing ! One inch can make the difference of many dollars.
Some pet shippers will have you believe some airlines are MORE pet safe, MORE pet friendly.... This is NOT true. ALL airlines that accept pets are equally pet safe and friendly. Some airlines give kickbacks to pet shippers who promote their airlines. The problem sometimes exist with the cargo handlers and ground crews.. These people service ALL the airlines. Many come from countries who are NOT so pet friendly. They often do NOT understand our love of pets, so they do NOT handle with the care they should !
Do NOT misunderstand the following ...... Some airlines such as United and American have unrealistic policies as to embargoes, especially in winter and summer. Depending upon outside temperatures. Delta seems to be quirkey at ALL times. Continental has the most realistic approach. None of the International carriers have these embargoe problems. ALL of the planes are pressurized where the pets are carried. Also, same temperature as in the cabin. The problems some carriers have has to do ONLY with outside temps.
Please read ALL of our pages. We have VERY important info regarding kennel construction; health of pets; how shipping charges are arrived at; how to save money;
how some pet shippers rip you off; the truth about ipata; etc
The easiest way to find the status of your Pet Aircargo Shipment is to click on:
www.cargotracking.utopiax.org/index.html Find the correct airline. Enter the Air Way Bill # Leave NO spaces
Contact us today at (304) 263-8188 or toll-free at (888) 234-5028 for a free estimate.
