Hi All
i am trying to find out how i am going to bring my tt puppy into ireland next may , aerlingus do not take dogs because the fleet of planes that operate in europe the cargo area is not ventilated .. and i cannot find a direct flight dublin to helsinki
so does anyone know of any airline  that fly helsinki to heathrow etc that i could contact that maybe able to help me , and then i can drive over on the ferry and pick him up at heathrow
any other information greatly appreciated

Georgina

Hi

Have you tried SAS, I thought they flew in to Heathrow.

Hope that helps.

British Airways takes dogs, at least they used to and I've flown them from Helsinki to Heathrow.

How about your local flying club?
Collecting my first puppy from UK mainland we managed to come to an arrangement with a private pilot.
Local airfield to local airfield.
Karen

>Local airfield to local airfield.

That can't be done internationally. Only certain airports can be used.

Oops forgot Ireland isn't Northern Ireland.....

Karen

The dog's coming from Finland - ideally ginastarr would like a direct flight to Eire, I think.

LOL...just looked at the top, she clearly states Helsinki, how dumb am I.

Karen

ideally i would like a flight dublin to helsinki and return , but if it comes to it i will go heathrow to helsinki

Georgina

I'm watching this with interest - hopefully my little boy will be coming over from Helsinki to UK in June.  Fingers crossed for the post rabies jab blood test.

> but if it comes to it i will go heathrow to helsinki
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My OH recently took a Setter pup from Heathrow to Helsinki - it was a Finnair flight

On Pets you can only fly approved routes and from Helsinki it is Heathrow I'm afraid.  If you go on the DEFRA website it will give you the approved carriers one of which is Finnair, which I used in 2006 to fly myself and a bitch to Finland and back.

Might be worth contacting the Irish equivalent to see if they have any approved routes with Finland with pet passport.