Cats and dogs by plane: the new rules make it easier to travel with animals

Cats and dogs by plane: for those traveling with pets in tow, from today life will be definitely simpler. The National Authority for Civil Aviation (ENAC), in fact, has given the green light to transport on the planes of the four -legged accompanying persons, who will be able to fly together with their owners freely and without limits of size or weight.

Evidently, the need for those who, as a traveler, want to bring their pets, and not a recently recently made the inauguration of a private jet rental service that allowed to bring their dog aboard the flight, made themselves heard with increasing strength. Hope was precisely that a similar solution would start a greater opening towards the companies to allow more easily to bring their cats and dogs by plane, and so it was in fact.

The decision to facilitate travelers with pets in tow, anticipated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, is being approved by ENAC, which will give the green light with the next board of directors, on May 12. The resolution, in detail, establishes that “The transport of pets is allowedhoused within a special carrier to be placed even above the seats, provided that they are adequately insured through the seat belts or other anchoring systems. The overall weight of the animal and the carrier can be higher than the currently expected limits, but not exceed the maximum weight expected for an average passenger ». Until now, however, the transport in the hold was mandatory in the event that the weight of the animal exceeded 7-10 kilos (depending on the airlines), carrier included. In the past, the rules too rigid and a certain confusion on the topic had also led to tragic consequences, to which today it is hoped to find a solution with these new provisions, which facilitate the transport of pets. A need that motions travelers have, and that constitutes for many owners of dogs and cats an objective problem and an obstacle to long journeys: difficult (if not sometimes impossible) to think of leaving their pet to leave for the holidays, and often the solutions available (dog sitter, pensions for animals and the like) are not always simple or perhaps constitute an important cost, in addition to forcing people to abandon – Animal, with a forced detachment that many prefer not to face. Thus, many, discouraged by practical and bureaucratic difficulties, have renounced travel by plane travel over the years, not knowing how to easily fix their pets during the journey.

To rejoice in these new rules are the 65 million Italian families who have a dog a cat at home, and who love to travel with them: according to i data collected by Airbnb in terms of holidays with animalsin fact, our country is at the top of the requests for pet friendly accommodation, with much higher percentages than the rest of the world and with vademecum drawn up to travel easily with their PETs without going to encounter inconveniences and inconveniences, all the potential difficulties that could be encountered.

To date, many (airlines but not only, also other types of more imaginative and original travel services) had sporadically lavished to try to meet the evident demand for travel solutions that would allow to include their animals. Today, however, with these new rules, everything would seem to simplify for those who want to bring their cats or dogs by plane without meeting too many obstacles to the real feasibility of the trip.