Silver Spring, Maryland | Flying with dogs can be fraught, and the options are slim. If they’re small enough, you can keep them in a carrier under a conventional plane seat. If not, you can crate them and check them into the cargo hold – a scary prospect for pet owners.
Although unwelcome incidents are statistically uncommon, it’s unsettling how often dogs are flown to the wrong destinations or mishandled by airport staff. Airline-related pet deaths are logged by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics monthly. Between September and November last year, the most recent months for which data is available, there were three such incidents on US carriers.
