Originally Posted by
sbm12
I doubt the veracity of this statement. There's no way the airlines would get away with carrying live animals at those temperatures and they do it all the time.
if you ever get your luggage in a reasonable period of time, open it and check the temps of the liquids. although i have never had anything frozen, that stuff is very cold.
the hold has to get heat from somewhere, as ambient at 35000 ft is about -50F. i had thought the pass cabin exhaust air was dumped into the cargo hold, but did not know for certain.
flew muc-blq a number of times with tarmack check. the luggage was thrown in the open back of the plane under the tail, and a luggage net was pulled over it. (no dogs)