It's raining cats and dogs on board.
 

Pets to be allowed in the cabin on commercial flights?

It's Alan Jones. No point in responding to anything Alan Jones says.

I was on an internal flight to Florida a few years back. Someone had a small parrot in a travel cage with them. It escaped when we were at cruising altitude and it flew the full length of the cabin then perched on the back of a seat near me. It was harmless but the terrified reaction of some passengers was surprisingly hilarious. One chap wanted it put off the plane! Another claimed he would now get bird 'flu and would be suing the airline. Another one almost dived to the floor. All grown men...at first glance, anyway.

Cats & dogs (up to a certain size) are allowed in cabin on plenty of airlines. Off the top of my head: American, Air Canada, Thai, Turkish, Lufthansa …….

I'll be bringing my companion horse.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....098a1a0145.jpg

What are CASA smoking with such daft regulation? A quick google search of what has happened overseas with this should be reason enough to ban all animals except guide dogs in the cabin. Then when the inevitable happens and someone gets bitten or urinated on by an animal how are the regulator and the airlines going to defend it? Where is the duty of care? How will they defend a small child getting mauled?

I don't understand how CASA can be so ridiculously pedantic in the way they regulate aviation in this country yet they will allow such stupidity as this. It's an offence for the captain to take a toilet break during flight but bring on your emotion support donkey and pitbull no problems.

Falcons are popular on Middle-East carriers.......

Remove cat before flight
 

FIFY:
CASA probably did a survey of punters and asked them:

(1) Would you feel more comfortable on a flight if you could bring a companion animal?

(2) Would you feel comfortable on a flight if the pilot in command left the cockpit?

OK, now we have a mainstream media report rather than Alan Jones trying to provoke outrage:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-are-hesitant

That would be awesome, I can smell when my German Shepherd takes a dump in the yard 10 metres away, that would go down well in a sealed cabin. Closely followed by 50 people vomiting.

I was going to say half the passengers on many of my fights act just as bad as that.

We are a nation of snowflakes. I can’t be bothered dealing with all the Karen’s down back wanting to speak to my team about other people’s dogs and cats on every bloody flight.

Perhaps Rex being a country battler airline they could let its pax bring the whole farm yard onboard. Plenty of empty seats to strap in the whole gang.

brilliant!👍

Descent
 

Used to rain cats and dogs on me during descent on the DC10...had it in business class on a BA747 flying to ANC which turned out one of the crew had plugged the overflow in the first class galley sink and forgotten it.

A mate of mine was SLF in Siberia; on board were chickens, ducks and piglets, not in cages but on the laps of passengers. He was on the 'European' seats (the ones with a belt with a buckle). The locals had trouser belts or rope as their seat belts.

I’ve been pissed on by human PAX before while they were drunk. I’d prefer the dog.

Actually, some of the people I see flying these days.. I’d prefer the dog.

Hang on...look at the bright side....we could have 'Bring your dog to work day'.

1) Wouldn’t bother me either way.

2) Depends if he was wearing a parachute.

During an emerg Evac do the animals get left behind? Be interesting to see how some animals behave when the humans panic! We humans fart as pressure drops, some dogs will stink the cabin out!
Dumb idea!

Would that be a seat next to a window, isle, dog, cat, pony, parakeet...

What would you like, chicken, beef, whiskers, chum, hay, sunflower seeds...

The Guardian is "mainstream media", thats the funniest thing I've heard for donkeys years, what was that quote about sin attached to Alan Jones comments?

Raining cats and dogs?
There was a cargo plane carrying Nissan gearbox parts that exploded midair.
They say it was raining Datsun cogs.

Simple: as PIC only seeing eye dogs allowed on my aircraft!

Understood! Only PIC’s seeing eye dog allowed.:}

# 25 is the WINNER !!

Thanks. Saved me from writing that.

I don’t have a dog in this race but it’s a pretty crazy idea, especially as the airlines have weightier things
to consider at the moment. But then, maybe it’s not a novel idea: I’ve seen plenty of passengers in First Class cabins behaving like pigs! Perhaps this proposal would legitimise their behaviour?

For some of the old(er) PNG crew - I remember Bob Walton at Hoskins checking under laplaps for breast feeding piglets in the 1970's on AirNuiGini F27s and DC3s.

I'd prefer a well-tended pig on the seat to having a PNG highlander wearing assgrass plonk his rear end on it.

Sh*teHawks
 

Yep, I operated a gold plated luxury 707 for a Sheikh back in the day. After landing the carpets were often covered in bird poo.

So, did someone have to spook the birds at departure to lower the take-off weight?

Yes we tried that, we wondered if the pax might shoot them though as they invariably climbed on with loaded weapons. Fortunately the plane was fitted with STAN (I think it was called) which gave the A/C actual weight while on the ground.

I'm afraid that won't change a thing. :8

Didn’t Charles Lindbergh disprove this?

Maybe if they were on a conveyor belt too?

Not just for the big boys - it means I won't have to keep renewing my permit ($$) to have my suitably restrained and well behaved dog in the back seat of my 172!

Anyone cruel enough to subject their pets to the horrors of domestic air travel in Australia should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.