Cargo Agent/Cathay Pacific Help Needed

[purewater]

I'm going to fly from Taipei to Ireland in a couple of months, and need to book the ticket fast. I'll probably be flying Cathay Pacific and Swiss Air.
For animals entering the UK or Ireland, they have to go as FREIGHT, not cargo, but I'm not sure how this changes things.
Before I book the ticket, I called Cathay Pacific to see how much this costs etc, and they couldn't give me any details. They said to ask my travel agent who the Cargo Agent is, and the travel agent hasn't gotten back to me because she doesn't seem to know either.
So can anyone please help me figure out WHO exactly do I contact?
Please, and Thank You!

[Belgian Pie]

Flying Cathay will be a pain ... you have to change planes in HK and then Switzerland ... think about your dog.

A better solution might be a direct flight with China Airlines to London or Amsterdam ... than change to Dublin.

China airlines has a stopover of just 1 hour or so in Bangkok.

[purewater]

Yes, I have realised this - I emailed my travel agent and asked her to look into this.

Amazingly, the ticket comes to about three times the price when I check China Airlines online! (94000 NT)

[cake]

I am sure Cathay fly direct to London from HK.
I am under the impression that you can not use China Air to transport pets to the UK (also Bangkok would not be allowed in transit as Thailand is not in the pet passport scheme?).
The DEFRA website claims you can only use Cathay Pacific and KLM CARGO to transport to the UK.

Unfortunately people who have gone through this procedure (recently) don't share their experiences with us. And if they did, it is difficult to find as exporting pets out of Taiwan isn't important enough to be deemed a sticky.

[Belgian Pie]

KLM has a few flights a week from Taiwan, through HK ... to Amsterdam.

Ireland is not the UK ... London is transit only ...

You never buy online tickets directly from an airline ... overpriced

It's about not to have to change planes ... or as less as possible, handling animals in cages scares them ...

[Belgian Pie]

Maybe you can try flying cargo with Cargolux ... than from Luxemburg to Ireland on a European domestic flight ...

http://www.cargolux.com/Customers/Sched ... p?module=4

http://www.cargolux.com/Customers/Netwo ... tyname=208

Just an idea ...

I know that they did carry a few passengers on cargo flights ... no inflight services tho ... maybe they still do

[Belgian Pie]

Basically flying from Taipei to Amsterdam with pets is very easy, just basic documents and no quarantine ... but from Amsterdam to UK, Ireland I have no clue about quarantine.

[purewater]

The dog will have all documentation in order, so she won't have to stay in quarantine in Ireland, but she will be picked up by a kennel, as she will be carried as Freight so I wouldn't be able to collect her myself anyway.

Do any of you have any guesses as to how much it might cost for the dog to travel? I'm really in the dark about what the price might be. Have any posters before mentioned the cost of flying with a dog (she's a medium sized dog, 13kg)?

[monokuro]

A dog on KLM will cost 200USD - however, it does say on their site if you are going to the UK or Ireland, you need to send it separately using KLM-Cargo.

https://www.klm.com/travel/tw_en/prepar ... /index.htm

[Belgian Pie]

There are two links to Cargolux ... call the Taiwan office ...