United suspends new reservations for pets in cargo hold
March 21, 2018
United Airlines is pausing its pet-shipping business after mishaps that included a dog winding up in Japan instead of Kansas.
United said Tuesday that it will halt PetSafe reservations while it reviews the service, which lets customers ship pets as cargo. Fees can run several hundred dollars for a medium-size or big dog.
The review, expected to finish by May 1, doesn't affect pets in the cabin like the French bulldog that died last week after a flight attendant ordered a passenger to put her pet carrier in the overhead bin.
United chartered a private jet last week to fly the mishandled Germ...
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