May 2008

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for March, 2008. This report contains no pet losses, 2 pet injuries, and 3 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the injury of 12 year-old dog that was dropped by a ramp agent in Seattle, WA. The dog received a cut near its eye, but did not requite a vet visit.
American Airlines reports two incident…
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April 2008 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for February, 2008. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and no pet deaths.

Continental reports the injure of an 8 year old Australian Shepherd during unloading in Pittsburgh, PA. The dog became scared during unloading and was able to cause the kennel to fall off of the baggage cart. The kenn…
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March 2008 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for January, 2008. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 4 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the death of a dog upon arrival in Ketchikan, Alaska. The report from Alaska Airlines does not give much details.
American Airlines reports the death of two dogs. A pug arrived deceased i…
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Feburary 2008 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for December, 2007. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and no pet deaths.

A fairly quiet December with Continental reporting the injury of one dog. Daisy, a 5 year-old Corgi Mix escaped its kennel and jumped from the aircraft when it landed in Houston. She was caught after a few minutes and…
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January 2008 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for November, 2007. This report contains 4 pet losses, 4 pet injuries, and 2 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the injury of two dogs during transport. One with an injured paw and one with an injured mouth, both injuries seem to be from the dogs attempting to escape from the kennel.
Continental re…
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December 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for October, 2007. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 1 pet death.

Comair reports the loss of a cat that escaped its kennel during loading in Harrisburg, PA. The cat appeared to become agitated when it approached the plane and managed to break the latch on an airline approved (IATA) …
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November 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for September, 2007. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 2 pet deaths.

Continental reports the death of a four year-old English Bulldog who was found deceased on arrival in San Diego from Houston on a non-stop flight. Continental reports that temperatures in the hold of the aircraft were…
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October 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for August, 2007. This report contains 2 pet losses, no pet injuries, and 5 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the loss of one cat and the death of another. A 5-year-old cat escaped from its kennel during loading in San Francisco, CA on August, 4th. The cat was not captured and…
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September 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for July, 2007. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 4 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the death of a 9-year-old bulldog who was returning from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The dog arrived in Los Angeles, California where it was found dead during unloading of the aircraft. The dog wa…
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August 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for June, 2007. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 3 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the death of three dogs and the injury of one. One of the reports, from Horizon Airlines, shows up a month late. A nine-week old puppy arrived in Wanatchee, WA in poor condition from Seattle, W…
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July 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for May, 2007. This report contains 1 pet loss, no pet injuries, and 4 pet deaths.

Continental reported the death of two dogs and the loss of one cat. On May 7th, a 4 year old Bulldog traveling from Boston to Fort Lauderdale, but upon arrival at a stop in Newark was found deceased. There was no appa…
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June 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for April, 2007. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 2 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reported the death of an 11 year old dog. It was noticed that the dog had one eye closed and tearing up prior to flight. The owner mentioned that the dog had been under stress during the family’s…
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May 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for March, 2007. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 3 pet deaths.

Continental reported two deaths. The first was a 10 year old Siberian Husky which was found deceased upon arrival in San Antonio, TX from Newark, New Jersey. A necropsy indicated the cause of death as a pre-existing h…
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April 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for February, 2007. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 2 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the first in-cabin death that I am aware of. A pug died of unknown causes during the flight. A flight attendant administered oxygen and performed CPR but was unable to…
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March 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for January, 2007. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 2 pet deaths.

Alaska Airlines reports the injury of a dog arriving at the Denver airport with a scuffed and bleeding nose.
Continental reported the death of 10 year old lab / chow mix that died at the animal quarantine statio…
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February 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for December, 2006. This report contains 4 pet losses, 2 pet injuries, and 1 pet death.

Alaskan Airlines reports the death of one and the injury of two dogs. The death was a pug, but no additional information was given. The first injury was a dog that escaped its kennel and received a broken leg in the p…
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January 2007 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for November, 2006. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 1 pet death.

United airlines reports a single, unfortunate death. A 14 year old cat was discovered deceased upon arrival in Chicago from Los Angeles. The owner stated that she was not surprised as the cat…
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December 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for October, 2006. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 3 pet deaths.

American Airlines reports the death of two dogs. The first was a Boxer that was found deceased upon arrival to Las Angeles. A necropsy reveled a pre-existing heart condition. American verified that oxygen and temperat…
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November 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for September, 2006. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 2 pet deaths.

ATA reported the loss of a cat on a flight to Honolulu. This is the second loss in as many months that can be attributed to Worldwide Flight Services, a company that handles moving cargo and …
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October 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for August, 2006. This report contains 2 pet losses, no pet injuries, and 5 pet deaths.

August was an unfortunately busy month for pet related air travel incident with three of the five incidents being discovered at Honolulu International.
American Airlines reported the death of a Pomeranian on a f…
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September 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for July, 2006. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 5 pet deaths.

Four or five deaths?
The September 2006 Air Travel Consumer Report has been posted and lists two injuries and four deaths, all on Continental Airlines.
The first injury was a cat who injured itself trying …
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August 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for June, 2006. This report contains 2 pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 3 pet deaths.

Dog stolen during transport?
The August 2006 Air Travel Consumer Report which includes the airline pet travel incidents for June, 2006 contains six incidents. Continental Airlines reports one death and one injur…
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July 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for May, 2006. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 2 pet deaths.

The July 2006 Air Travel Consumer Report which includes the airline pet travel incidents for May, 2006 report two deaths. There is not currently much information available on these incidents. Alaska Airlines reported …
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June 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for April, 2006. This report contains 1 pet loss, 1 pet injury, and 4 pet deaths.

The pet travel incident numbers are higher for the month of April 2006. The June 2006 Air Travel Consumer Report which has the numbers from the month of April lists three deaths, two injuries, and one loss. Though aga…
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May 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for March, 2006. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 1 pet death.

The March 2006 report on the loss, injury, or death of animals during air travel lists two injuries this month, though in reality it is one death and one injury
Pinnacle Airlines, operating as Northwest Airlink,…
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April 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for February, 2006. This report contains 2 pet losses, no pet injuries, and no pet deaths.

February 2006 has airlines reporting only one loss. Delta reported the loss of a whippet named Vivi, that escaped from her kennel on the way to the airplane.
Delta’s report mentions that the spring locking…
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March 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for January, 2006. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 1 pet death.

January 2006 is fairly quiet, but unfortunately Delta reported one death and Continental one Injury.
The death was a 2 year old pug named “Porkchop” who was found motionless upon arrival in Atlanta. …
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February 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for December, 2005. This report contains 1 pet loss, no pet injuries, and no pet deaths.

December closes out 2005 with a quiet month. Only one loss.
Detail of the Incident
Delta Airlines, Loss – Cat: A cat escaped from its transport kennel while being transferred from th…
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January 2006 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for November, 2005. This report contains no pet losses, 1 pet injury, and 1 pet death.

Detail of the Incidents
Hawaiian Airlines, Injury – Boxer/Bulldog Mix: Prior to loading, the dog chewed through the plastic vent in the kennel and injured its mouth.
SkyWest, Death &…
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December 2005 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for October, 2005. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 5 pet deaths.

Detail of the Incidents
American Airlines, Death – Boston Terrier: Dog was found deceased in San Francisco, CA, flight originated in Dallas, TX. The necropsy results reveal the dog died of…
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November 2005 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for September, 2005. This report contains no pet losses, no pet injuries, and 1 pet death.

The report for September 2005 shows the safest month since the reporting of pet transport incidents began, unfortunately there was still one death.
Detail of the Incident
Continental Airli…
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October 2005 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for August, 2005. This report contains 1 pet loss, 4 pet injuries, and 4 pet deaths.

Detail of the Incidents
American Airlines, Death – Cockapoo Dog: Three dogs were transported on American Airlines flight 2282. Upon arrival one of the dogs was found deceased. The necropsy…
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September 2005 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for July, 2005. This report contains 2 pet losses, 2 pet injuries, and 1 pet death.

Details of the Incidents
Alaska Airlines, Injury – Small Cat: A small cat was loaded in a cargo hold along with dry ice. The cat was lethargic upon arrival. The pet was transported to an e…
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August 2005 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for June, 2005. This report contains 1 pet loss, 4 pet injuries, and 5 pet deaths.

Detail of the Incidents
Alaska Airlines, Loss – Domestic short hair cat: Information provided indicated that a cat escaped from it’s kennel once, was returned to the kennel and the k…
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July 2005 Airline Pet Travel Report

Airline Pet Travel Report on the loss, injury, and death of pets during air travel for May, 2005. This report contains 1 pet loss, 5 pet injuries, and 4 pet deaths.

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