London Cambridge Airport will witness a new free facility, that of pet handling launched by ExecuJet Europe. This service will ensure that pets like cats and dogs can travel across the globe without being quarantined or having to be inspected by vets abroad. Both London Cambridge Airport as well as ExecuJet has been accepted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) for the country’s Pet Travel Scheme (PETS).
The new rules that had come into effect this current year ensures that PETS is completely on par with the EU rules and this implies that domestic pets entering the country form the European Union and even from some of the non-EU countries would no longer require a blood test after their vaccination and the pre-entry waiting time would be brought down to 21 days from the earlier six months.
According to John Brutnell, the General Manager of ExecuJet UK, they are of the opinion that their airlines and the London Cambridge Airport are the first in the country to provide PETS as a free facility to people on their flights. He remarked that the company was certain that a lot of their customers would make the best use of this novel value-added facility and that they have affirmed that one huge cabin jet will be anchored at Cambridge to ensure that the owners of the pets can transfer their pets simply and easily.
The team members of PETS at the Cambridge Airport would examine the passport of the pets, their eligibility for travel and microchip with the escort or owner of the pet inside the airplane. The pet would be allowed off the cabin if all papers were in order and stamped as needed. People interested in transporting a pet to the UK would have to send an application via email to the pet dealing team at ExecuJet Cambridge a minimum of twenty four hours before the flight leaves the airport.
These new regulations permit UK’s PETS in line with the latest pet-importation regulations across Europe. Earlier on, dogs and cats had to be quarantined for a period of six months to make certain that diseases like rabies etc would not be brought into the country. However this rule was altered for some of the EU countries under PETS and with the launch of the pet passport scheme. The new rules would be applicable to all EU as well as accepted non-EU countries.
