Comments on: Canadian Transportation Agency Suspends Air Canada’s No Pet Policy

By: Fabianna Lares

Fabianna Lares — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:56:08 +0000

I used to Live between two contries, Venezuela and Toronto, last june I travel to Toronto with my dog, in my way back air canada told me ” you can not bring your dog back with you”, after I call every operator the insist I couldn’t bring my dog with me, , When I went to the air canadas counter to check out, the lady at the desk ask me , Where is my dog, I was in shock, I explained to her that I had to left my dog behind with my best friensd for couple months, because what they told me througth the phone, She apologize and told me I could bring my dog back with me, at that point was to late… I couldn’t go back for my dog.
Today I going back to Toronto and I make the arregments to bring my dog back with me…. Sorprise my dog with the kennel is over the 70 lbs. and either the air canada and air canada cargo say to me that I CAN NOT BRING MY DOG with then…. i have the tickets all ready in my hands… is incredible how they change the rules every months

I am totally agree with Sandra

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:25:51 +0000

I brought my dog with me to the carribbean to be with family during a very difficult time with a dying parent. On arranging my return flight Air Canada informed me that they could no longer willing to take my dog. Air Canada Cargo does not service this island. Air Canada is the only direct flight to Toronto @ 1500.00, the other Canadian airlines (charter flights only $499.00) to Toronto will not take dogs. There are no other airlines flying direct into Toronto. This puts undo hardship on my dog and myself having to arrange for 3 flights to get back home to Toronto, not to mention the additional financial cost (now $2050.00) and increases the risk of my dog being left behind on a tarmac in hot tropical country.

I think this decision was poorly thought out.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:25 +0000

I once took my dog on a flight that was delayed on the tarmac. A woman was sitting across the aisle from me, and we struck up a conversation. She obviously didn’t know I had a dog with me because after half an hour, when I bent down to check on him, she was like “oh you have a dog! I have to move, I’m so allergic to dogs!”

I know some people have allergies bad enough that they can’t sit next to a dog on a plane for a few hours, but this woman was completely fine until she learned I had the dog. I agree with Nancy. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. The whole world can’t be sanitized for everyone’s protection.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:48:56 +0000

Most chronic allergy sufferers are extremely sensitive to strong odors such as colognes and perfumes. Perhaps Air Canada should also ban men and women from wearing such things on their passenger flights? The point being, when allergy sufferers go out in public it is with the understanding that they face the risk of being exposed to allergens. Dogs are just one of hundreds of things people can be sensitive to, and for the airline to single them out is simply discrininatory. Ban dogs, and it becomes a slippery slope for the airline to ban other things as well.