Pet Travel: One Dog's Flight on Pet Airways (PHOTOS)

Are you taking a long distance trip this summer and wish you could take your dog? If you're anything like me, you consider your pet a key part of the family and his travel arrangements are just as important as yours. As a travel writer, I'm usually the one testing out new hotels and flights.

But this time, I wasn't allowed on board. It was pets only when my new rescue fox terrier Phineas a.k.a Finney flew from the East Coast to Denver on Pet Airways, the airline where pets, and pets only, fly in the comfort of the plane's cabin.

Follow Finney along on his journey through the slide show below and find out why I'm so enthusiastic about this new travel option for pets and why Finney can't wait to take to the skies again.

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Ever wanted to travel long distances with your pet, but didn't want to drive, your pet is too big to fly under the seat in a plane and/or you know too many horror stories to put him in cargo? Pet Airways is solving those travel challenges with its small pet-only planes where dogs, cats and other critters travel in the cabin. This is how my rescue dog Finney took to flying the friendly skies...

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Ever wanted to travel long distances with your pet, but didn't want to drive, your pet is too big to fly under the seat in a plane and/or you know too many horror stories to put him in cargo? Pet Airways is solving those travel challenges with its small pet-only planes where dogs, cats and other critters travel in the cabin. This is how my rescue dog Finney took to flying the friendly skies...

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[Ravyn]

05:22 AM on 07/20/2011

Just want to add that PetAirways is associated with some of the big humane societies and have gotten a lot of great reviews. They say they hope to eventually go to enough places that they they would be within 500 miles of every major city in the U.S. I'm on their mailing list and they were adding stops at two or three cities in Texas this summer, I think it was Houston, Dallas and Austin. They responded to an enquiry that they got a lot of requests to go to the Pacific Northwest and hoped to be getting there in the next year or two.

[Ravyn]

05:17 AM on 07/20/2011

It sounds really wonderful. Wonder if it works as well for cats since they can't be walked and tend to get more stressed. Also wish they'd go to the Pacific Northwest because that's more than a 1200 mile drive from Denver or over 900 miles from L.A. to Portland.

[Nancy Cronk]

05:05 PM on 07/03/2011

What a wonderful service. Can you comment about the cost, please?

[entemplin]

02:24 PM on 06/27/2011

very cool! looks like they star treatment and everything. haha :-D

[Rusty Rueff]

02:35 PM on 06/23/2011

We just flew our French Bulldog, Louie, from LA to NY this week and Louie came off the plane happier than any other trip we have had him on. Paws in the air for PetAirways! We are lobbying for San Francisco as the next service city...there were two dogs (that we knew of) who were from SF and had made the drive from SF to LA to catch the flight!

[Kathy McCabe]

04:21 PM on 06/24/2011

I know! It is amazing how happy and fine they are when they come off the plane. I got off a plane last night and I looked like I had been through a war!

[onwisconsin]

01:04 PM on 06/23/2011

We've been mulling over a possible move overseas. I really wish Pet Airways flew to other countries.

[archangelvh]

01:41 PM on 06/22/2011

I love this service. Too many horror stories. I would drive with my pet before putting them on a plane. If I went to live overseas, I would see if a passenger boat would take us. Just like they did during vintage transatlantic crossings.

[KIVPossum]

11:19 AM on 06/22/2011

That is wonderful.

[Kathy McCabe]

11:04 AM on 06/22/2011

They are absolutely treated better than the general public. I'm trying to find a way to get Pet Airways to take me in the cabin too!

[James Brown]

10:16 AM on 06/22/2011

Looks like they get better treatment than I did on my last (hopefully) flight...