Thread: flying a pup inter island

Any one flown a pup inter island lately if so what was the price?
i know you have to go through a approved pet transporter now

Originally Posted by bigbear

Any one flown a pup inter island lately if so what was the price?
i know you have to go through a approved pet transporter now

We flew our new pointer pup Tauranga to Nelson 13 months ago on AirNZ via PetTravel, Cost was $280 from memory (small cat carrier and she was about 7kgs at the time).
Very easy

Originally Posted by mikee

We flew our new pointer pup Tauranga to Nelson 13 months ago on AirNZ via PetTravel, Cost was $280 from memory (small cat carrier and she was about 7kgs at the time).
Very easy

Cheaper than driving up to pick her up and less stressful than via a stock truck "dog box"

I have a pup going down south island, be gizzy, auckland queenstown and the new owner just rang me to say its going to cost $435 with him supplying cage. I was a bit shocked

Yeah sounds about the norm, I won’t send any south unless we have a couple going at the same time, I thinks it’s the same price to fly up and pick up as carry on

Have seen a few people here posting on Facebook if someone is already flying if they can take for them

Originally Posted by bigbear

Any one flown a pup inter island lately if so what was the price?
i know you have to go through a approved pet transporter now

Hi Big bear, I got a pup from Wellington to Invercargill just before lockdown last year & it cost $295 with me supplying the transport crate. It pays to shop around as there was several hundred dollars of variation in the quotes I got from the various transporters.
I used Donquest they are Chch based & found them easy to deal with.
Welcome to Donquest Boarding Motel for Cats and Dogs

We are getting our new boy sent down at the end of the month and $395 is the cheapest we can find so far. That's from Rotorua thru akl to nelson with a cage kindly supplied by the pup's current owner.

Anyone would think these animals have a seat on the plane with what they are wanting to charge

Originally Posted by bigbear

Anyone would think these animals have a seat on the plane with what they are wanting to charge

Think you'll find that since Covid the airlines charges for freight have increased dramatically. Going on some company's are charging for Couriers it's flowed thru there also.

We have heard so many bad stories about 'JetPets' from the show dog community!

(personally use 'Globalpets').

Was a cost cutting exercise from air nz, so now you pay extra for someone to book the ticket and the normal freight charge on top.
Adds a considerable extra to buying a pup or dog between islands, try the pet bus or something similar.

Or like you said send two pups at once. I can now see why there a few people running a pet bus companies now

with out sounding like a dick, the cost to fly a dog is really not that bag and pretty similar to what we get charged to send parts around NZ same day on AIRNZ.

Given the cost of owing a dog over its lifetime its not really that much of a cost over the time of ownership.

Its just it seems a lot at the time.
I think its worth it to have the pup delivered speedily and with a minimum of disrrutpion to its normal routine.

I do agree flying a young pup from north to south can be quick, getting a pup in pet bus could be a full day, plus a ferry crossing.
Its been a very long time since flying a pup and like every thing the price has gone up.