that is why companies like this are the only way to go:http://petairways.com/they fly retrofitted/stripped out B190's and they put the pets in the CABIN and they get good treatment.. I would feel safe to let my pet fly with these people, they actually seem to give a cr**

You took the words right out of my mouth. Pet Air does the same thing.

Since I live near D.C. and the National Zoo, a big topic has been going around in the news about a panda called Tai Shan. He was born in the USA and kept here under Chinese agreement and now its time for him to go back to China as part as a repopulation program, since Pandas are an endangered species (Under 1600 Pandas remain). He is being transported on a specially designed FedEx truck to carry him to Dulles Airport (KIAD) and was said on the news that he would be taken on "the biggest cargo plane" (I was going to school so I did not have much time to look at what plane it was) with vets that would monitor him the whole 15 hours on the trip. Animals are not always treated unfairly on airplanes, planes like the 747 have an "AFT Cargo Heat" button to heat the cargo bay as well as other zone temperature controls. Since FedEx also has a major McDonnell Douglas fleet, the DC-10, MD-10, and MD-11 have cargo zone temperatures as well. If the pilots would be so kind to turn on heat, and the owners would be so kind to ship them on a special service that is made specifically for animals, or send them on a cargo flight in a large cage there would be less problems. Unfortunately, this story probably illustrates what happens most of the time today.

Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta was on the same flight.

Anyone ever open up the the pit only to find Hamsters running everywhere....... :( Vincent