Air Travel Has Gone To The Dogs

RadishRose

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BARK Air officially launched this week, completing its first flight from New York to Los Angeles on Thursday. It also flies to London and aims to add more routes in the coming months.

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BARK Air describes itself as “the world’s first air travel experience designed specifically for dogs first, and their human companions second.”

“BARK Air has taken the white glove experience typical of a human’s first-class experience and redirected all that pampering to pooches – from booking to arrival, to in-flight services and disembarkation, dogs will truly be the VIPs and treated to a positively luxurious, curated experience,” it said in an announcement last month.

It’s also an expensive one: BARK Air flights between New York and LA cost $6,000 for one dog and one human (or one human and two dogs collectively under 50 pounds) in each direction, and one-way flights between New York and London go for $8,000.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/26/nx-s1-4975744/bark-air-dog-airline-first-flight
 

Well, the human gets to go first class with the dog. London to NYC, first class for a human is about $6,000+, so a 1st class human with two 1st class dogs isn't all the far out of line for $8,000.
And there are pet only airlines, with attendants watching the pets, that do NYC to LA for about $800.
 

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