To think I heard a dog barking on a KLM flight?

[MorrisZapp]

Is this possible?

I flew from Amsterdam to Edinburgh today with KLM. As the plane started to taxi before takeoff, I distinctly heard the high pitched yelps of a dog underneath us.

Do normal planes offer dog carriage in the hold?

I was about to ask about this.
We always had to get fogs in by car bcs we were told no one operates return flights to UK with animals

Hold got air and temperature checks.
If you fly with a dog in a hold you can ask flight attendant and they will provide info.
Also, pilots are informed if they have dog in hold. Mines went to plane multiole times.

Do they warn you that there will be cats on board when booking?

A few years ago coming homie from a work trip I flew KLM business class from Houston to Amsterdam and the woman behind me had a Shih Tzu with her. Which I wouldn't have minded normally but this thing farted (at least I told myself it was fart) the whole flight and it was disgusting. God knows what they'd been feeding it to make it stink like that.

No. And I doubt you'd be able to check in advance either. The best you can do is to find if the flight/airline allows pets to be carried in the cabin, and take your chances.

They didn't warn me when booking, but when I got on the flight crew let me know my neighbour was a cat and asked if that was ok, or if they needed to reshuffle seating.

I was looking for an answer of "Oh, I used to know this one. It's always coming up at pub quizzes, now is it 3 hours and 28 seconds or is that a weasel in the submarine?"

Can you just point out exactly where @realolivetraybake was rude? Nobody else on the thread has been able to see it and you've just been embarrassing yourself since. It's a real shame you've taken this position because you both seemed well informed and could have a really interesting discussion together, that we all could have learnt from, including you. You ruined it by taking offence at nothing.

I have read all of @RealOliveTraybake’s post, and can’t see anything rude in them!

@ReadthemAndWeep you said you like to trust the KLM webpage, please look on their aircraft list for A320

www.klm.co.uk/information/travel-class-extra-options/aircraft-types

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM_fleet#:~:text=Dutch%20flag%2Dcarrier%20airline%20KLM,primarily%20on%20long%2Dhaul%20flights.

Deliveries for the A320 are from July 2024. As we're still in June, @RealOliveTraybake is very much correct.

The ones you tried to show earlier were for a sister airline, not KLM but one of the branches of Air France-KLM: Transavia France

www.airfranceklm.com/en/newsroom/air-france-klm-takes-delivery-its-first-airbus-a320neo-be-operated-transavia-france

Please trust the genuine subject matter expert. As all who have praised @RealOliveTraybake today have really enjoyed their posting!

I had to fly them to Schipol...then hand them to a pet handling service, they then put them on a KLM flight to the UK. When we all arrived at Heathrow, they got picked up by the Quarantine centre, all the paper work checked and I picked them up that evening. They did not have to do quarantine as I had all their rabies titres done before flying. BA do not fly pets directly in to the UK
I last flew pets back to the UK in 2017. It's easier moving with kids around the world than with pets 😁

Thanks!
It would be easier and cheaper to fly ten kids than single dog back to UK!

You are right, I erased the memory of very high quote to get dog shipped with company
It was significantly cheaper to get a man with a van and cross sea.

The poster was purely factual, not at all rude. This is the kind of specialist knowledge my dad would have come out with. 😢