Okay, the reform of the quarantine laws in the UK made it easier to travel with dogs and cats - but you pay dear to transport pooches, in particular. A reader in the Var says he had to pay £550 to bring an adult Alsatian from the UK. What can I say? easyJet doesn't accept animals (they say it slows down the turn-round of the aircraft) and our reader wanted to use BA because he is a high-end Executive Club member. Dogs, once considered to be excess baggage, are now categorised as cargo and charged for accordingly. They're very well looked after, though. 

And Air France is no fun for fatties! The French carrier is very dog-friendly and still carries pooches as excess baggage with smaller animals allowed in the cabin. But Spinetta's people are less indulgent to overweight human passengers. One obese Gaul - he weighs in at 160 kilos - is suing the carrier because check-in staff insisted he pay for a second ticket before allowing him on board. According to trade commentators, this is likely to become routine on most international airlines. According to an FAA report in the US, "The average passenger has put on 10 kilos in the past 10 years - and that's pushing up aircraft payloads and that's carbon negative."

 
From Riviera Reporter 122, Aug/Sept 2007

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