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Jeremy stuck a common chord in another thread, and I think I'll fire this off to Randy at AMDA and Paul at MAC, because if ANY legislation on this industry is to be implemented the very FIRST needs to be cargo priority and control by the airlines.
The airlines IMO kill more livestock than any other portion of the hobby through incompetance. Dead fish for the resturant industry carries much more priority than live aquarium animals with the airlines AND they get a cheaper freight rate to boot.
I have been lucky because I've managed to restrict 99% of my shipments to Southwest Airlines for the past 12-18 months and haven't had to file any freight claims. However it used to be much higher when I used the bigger carriers. I once had a carrier handling a shipment of fish outa Florida to Manchester, NH with a stopover to change planes midday in Philly. The animals left FL in the AM and reached PHL and were then misrouted to LAX!!! They got into LA at 11PM and were put on the redeye back to PHL and arrived at PHL on Saturday morning at 7am. They then sat in PHL until Tuesday because they were bumped for luggage and other priority cargo. I got the boxes on Tuesday afternoon and when we opended them obviously almost everything was dead or dying EXCEPT for a snowflake eel because those things are real troopers.
Accidents will happen but if the airlines were forced to treat these animals with the respect and diginity they deserve it would go along way to reducing the impact on the reefs.
OHH and it would also help if the airlines would require the cargo agents to actually read english so you don't have some illiterate SOB mistaking MHT for LAX! Put them somewhere safe like by the magnetometers
The airlines IMO kill more livestock than any other portion of the hobby through incompetance. Dead fish for the resturant industry carries much more priority than live aquarium animals with the airlines AND they get a cheaper freight rate to boot.
I have been lucky because I've managed to restrict 99% of my shipments to Southwest Airlines for the past 12-18 months and haven't had to file any freight claims. However it used to be much higher when I used the bigger carriers. I once had a carrier handling a shipment of fish outa Florida to Manchester, NH with a stopover to change planes midday in Philly. The animals left FL in the AM and reached PHL and were then misrouted to LAX!!! They got into LA at 11PM and were put on the redeye back to PHL and arrived at PHL on Saturday morning at 7am. They then sat in PHL until Tuesday because they were bumped for luggage and other priority cargo. I got the boxes on Tuesday afternoon and when we opended them obviously almost everything was dead or dying EXCEPT for a snowflake eel because those things are real troopers.
Accidents will happen but if the airlines were forced to treat these animals with the respect and diginity they deserve it would go along way to reducing the impact on the reefs.
OHH and it would also help if the airlines would require the cargo agents to actually read english so you don't have some illiterate SOB mistaking MHT for LAX! Put them somewhere safe like by the magnetometers
