Airlines are not friendly, period. And they are going to stick it too passengers any way possible. I used to love to fly, but not anymore. DH worked for a time for TSA. He told me horror stories of what happens to peoples' belongings behind the scenes. There's no way, no how I would entrust my pet to those cretins.
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