Originally Posted by Section 107

It has been almost 10 years since congressional rules and federal law prohibited critters from flying on private aircraft at no charge. Now, they must pay the pro-rata actual cost of the flight or the cost of full of Y (or F, I don't recall off the top of my head) of the available commercial flight. Of course, even if they are paying they still receive the main benefit of the time savings (not to mention the comfort).