How do airlines determine how expensive a pet plane ticket is?
How do airlines determine how expensive a pet plane ticket is? It may seem like you need college degrees in business management, calculus and quantum mechanics (along with a keen interest in astrology) to figure out how airlines set prices for plane tickets. A ticket from one city to another might vary hundreds of dollars from one day to the next, and for no apparent reason. On top of that, most airlines have several classes of tickets that can affect the price — even if you are only looking at the coach section of the plane. But pet tickets are a little less perplexing. In most cases, a pet ticket is a flat fee, though a few airlines do have a sliding scale based on the animal’s weight for pets traveling in the cargo section. But unlike tickets for humans, pet tickets remain consistent until the respective airline decides to make a company-wide change to the fee. Not all airlines allow pets on planes. Others only allow pets in the cabin section — the part of the plane with the passe
