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How to Travel With your Pets: Suggested Tips from EL AL Airlines
How to Travel With your Pets: Suggested Tips from EL AL Airlines1. Your pet should exercise before the flight. Taking your pet for a quick jog or walk will help calm your pet before the flight so that they will sleep easier and be more comfortable.
2. Pets should be fed a few hours before departure. You don?t want your pet to go hungry but you also do not want them to get an upset stomach, in case there is turbulence, we wouldn?t want them to lose their lunch...
Read More3. Make sure your pet is comfortable! In the winter months, make sure a blanket is available to cover your pet. It?s a long flight for them too! Not only will a blanket keep them warm, but comfortable.
4. Purchase the appropriate travel kennel or pet carrier far in advance. Your pet will usually travel with greater ease if they have established a "nesting" type relationship with their carrier at home prior to the flight. Have your pet ?try out? the carrier prior to the flight, so they feel an attachment to it beforehand.
5. Clip your pet?s toe-nails before any flight. This reduces the chance of them getting hooked on the carrier door or other openings.
6. Contact the appropriate embassy far in advance of your trip to learn about quarantine or health requirements.
7. Make sure your animal has a sturdy collar with two identification tags. One tag for the animals? home information and the other that includes the pets destination information.8. Always carry a current health certificate from your veterinarian, dated within 7 to 10 days of departure.
9. Make sure to give your pet plenty of love before and after the flight.
EL Al, the only airline with a pet frequent flyer club for travel to Israel, offers the above tips to ensure a safe and enjoyable flight for travelers flying with pets. The frequent pet flier program with El Al offers a free roundtrip flight for pets after they fly on three roundtrip flights within a three-year period. El Al also offers a unique pet passport available through the program, please let me know if you are interested in seeing a sample.
About EL AL
Celebrating more than 60 years of service, EL AL, Israel's national airline, offers the most nonstop flights between New York (JFK/Newark) and Israel as well as the only nonstop service from Los Angeles. Worldwide, EL AL flies to more than 40 destinations from Israel and serves dozens of other destinations throughout the world via partnerships with many other carriers (including 22 additional cities in the U.S.A.). Only EL AL has First Class service on nonstop flights between the U.S.A. and Israel. The airline has annual revenues of about $1.93 billion and carries more than 1.8 million passengers every year.
EL AL embodies Israel?s values of innovation and caring and the promise of a genuine Israeli welcome. Your Israel experience begins with EL AL and warm Israeli hospitality. Israeli flight attendants will make you feel at home, the best trained Israeli pilots will take you to and from Israel and passengers enjoy enhanced in-flight dining with freshly prepared healthy meals
