Increased fees for military to transfer pets
Feb 14, 2012, 11:55 am
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Increased fees for military to transfer pets
Received the following article from a relative who is full time military and very concerned about these proposed new fees.
http://www.stripes.com/news/shipping...9#dsq-comments
http://www.stripes.com/news/shipping...9#dsq-comments
Feb 16, 2012, 10:23 pm
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http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...-sticker-shock
I do take this personally, as my nephew and his family have been posted in Asia with their children and dogs. They are currently in the U.S. My niece first brought this issue to my attention.
Feb 17, 2012, 6:28 am
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This is not exactly a love letter.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...-sticker-shock
I do take this personally, as my nephew and his family have been posted in Asia with their children and dogs. They are currently in the U.S. My niece first brought this issue to my attention.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...-sticker-shock
I do take this personally, as my nephew and his family have been posted in Asia with their children and dogs. They are currently in the U.S. My niece first brought this issue to my attention.
Feb 17, 2012, 1:47 pm
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This is not exactly a love letter.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...-sticker-shock
I do take this personally, as my nephew and his family have been posted in Asia with their children and dogs. They are currently in the U.S. My niece first brought this issue to my attention.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...-sticker-shock
I do take this personally, as my nephew and his family have been posted in Asia with their children and dogs. They are currently in the U.S. My niece first brought this issue to my attention.
This one isn't exactly a "love letter" either.
Feb 17, 2012, 3:48 pm
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Sounds like United is about to get increasingly ripped in public for adopting what they are saying is CO's "PetSafe" approach of checked in pets being counted as special cargo instead of against the regulary checked baggage allowance with special fees for pet. It's a headline story in more and more media outlets, online and off.
Again classify the pets as checked baggage with a fee instead of as cargo, and the cost of transporting the pets drops tremendously?
Isn't this topic being discussed in the UA forum?
Again classify the pets as checked baggage with a fee instead of as cargo, and the cost of transporting the pets drops tremendously?
Isn't this topic being discussed in the UA forum?
Feb 24, 2012, 4:41 pm
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Feb 24, 2012, 4:51 pm
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In most other ways UA's decision on this matter stands and customers with pets to transport will be worse off, as UA is sticking to the decision of adopting CO's policy and charging for pet transport as per CO's policy -- something that is far more expensive for customers in terms of money and/or time than pre-merger UA's policy.
Feb 25, 2012, 10:10 pm
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“After all the feedback we were getting, we realized the impact of the change in policy,” Ryan said, “specifically in Japan with the third-party freight forwarding fees. We’ve developed a special process for these families by which they can technically check pets as luggage.”
I love the part where UA says, We’ve developed a special process. Basically they are still ripping off anyone not traveling on military orders.
I love the part where UA says, We’ve developed a special process. Basically they are still ripping off anyone not traveling on military orders.