Pets in the Cabin - Coming soon on Virgin Australia

[kyle]

Couldn’t agree more. If you are unable to travel without your pet or check it into the hold, don’t expect others to accommodate.

Works the other way too of course.

 

[MooTime]

Works the other way too of course.

As in if the pet can't travel without its owner?

 

[p--and--t]

Another FF site is reporting

“Virgin’s ‘pet zone’ will be restricted to a limited number of designated rows on each plane, making it easier to separate passengers who’d rather not be near those animals, such as travellers with allergies.”

If the zone is at the back, does this mean everyone in the back half of plane has to walk past them to board and does every economy passenger have to pass them to get to WC. Also very close to the galley where food is prepared.

If not at the back, where. Using up the extra legroom seats behind business (now without dividers)?

If a passenger has an allergy will they get seat selection for free or become second class citizens who's needs are relegated behind a pet.

 

[MooTime]

Another FF site is reporting

“Virgin’s ‘pet zone’ will be restricted to a limited number of designated rows on each plane, making it easier to separate passengers who’d rather not be near those animals, such as travellers with allergies.”

If the zone is at the back, does this mean everyone in the back half of plane has to walk past them to board and does every economy passenger have to pass them to get to WC. Also very close to the galley where food is prepared.

If not at the back, where. Using up the extra legroom seats behind business (now without dividers)?

If a passenger has an allergy will they get seat selection for free or become second class citizens who's needs are relegated behind a pet.

So by placing the "cage" under seat in front of you, that's awfully close to the pax sitting in that seat. It could slide / move with turbulence.

If you drop something on ground, you'd want to be careful where you put your hand / finger to find it.

Could the dog urine outside the cage, leg up as they do and onto your foot?

They wouldn't be wonderful at all.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Couldn’t agree more. If you are unable to travel without your pet or check it into the hold, don’t expect others to accommodate.

Well, it might come down to economics.

Westjet operates 700 flights a day. Assuming the above figures are correct, pets are carried in-cabin on 175 of those flights. Even if it’s just one pet at $125 a time, that’s almost $8 million annually.

Air Canada allegedly responded by following suit.

Another FF site is reporting

“Virgin’s ‘pet zone’ will be restricted to a limited number of designated rows on each plane, making it easier to separate passengers who’d rather not be near those animals, such as travellers with allergies.”

If the zone is at the back, does this mean everyone in the back half of plane has to walk past them to board and does every economy passenger have to pass them to get to WC. Also very close to the galley where food is prepared.

If not at the back, where. Using up the extra legroom seats behind business (now without dividers)?

If a passenger has an allergy will they get seat selection for free or become second class citizens who's needs are relegated behind a pet.

Not sure what food is prepared in the VA economy galley? And not to mention the hundreds of people walking their shoes through the galley during boarding and disembarkation, and after using the WC?

So by placing the "cage" under seat in front of you, that's awfully close to the pax sitting in that seat. It could slide / move with turbulence.

If you drop something on ground, you'd want to be careful where you put your hand / finger to find it.

Could the dog urine outside the cage, leg up as they do and onto your foot?

They wouldn't be wonderful at all.

Containers are required to be waterproof.

If movement of the container was an issue causeing a safety concern, it won’t be allowed.

Many of the arguments being raised against the carriage of pets in cabin could equally be applied to passengers themselves! What if passengers don’t wear shoes to the toilet? Or don’t wash their hands and come back to spread urine over the seat? What if pax can’t make it to the WC in time?

 

[MooTime]

Well, it might come down to economics.

Westjet operates 700 flights a day. Assuming the above figures are correct, pets are carried in-cabin on 175 of those flights. Even if it’s just one pet at $125 a time, that’s almost $8 million annually.

Air Canada allegedly responded by following suit.



Not sure what food is prepared in the VA economy galley? And not to mention the hundreds of people walking their shoes through the galley during boarding and disembarkation, and after using the WC?


Containers are required to be waterproof.

If movement of the container was an issue causeing a safety concern, it won’t be allowed.

Many of the arguments being raised against the carriage of pets in cabin could equally be applied to passengers themselves! What if passengers don’t wear shoes to the toilet? Or don’t wash their hands and come back to spread urine over the seat? What if pax can’t make it to the WC in time?

Bottom of cage may have a waterproof plastic / absorbing layer, but the sides are a cage, air and water solution passes to though.
Not a safety concern, just a dog taking a leak. Boy girl dogs you know.

 

[justinbrett]

Well, it might come down to economics.

Westjet operates 700 flights a day. Assuming the above figures are correct, pets are carried in-cabin on 175 of those flights. Even if it’s just one pet at $125 a time, that’s almost $8 million annually.

I very much doubt your source. Even it used the caveat “reportedly”, and the way it is written could well include pets in the hold.

But also your number of flights include international, many of which don’t permit pets, and domestic/US pets are only C$50-59. So the profit is probably much less than that.

It’s still cheaper than the hold, so quite possibly pets in the cabin are a net loss for the airline by giving pax a cheaper option.