Weather Update for Continental

The severe weather in the North East is affecting many pet shipments. We just got this update from our folks at Continental.

As you may know, one of Continental Airlines' largest hubs is in Newark, New Jersey (just outside New York City) and that area is being hit by a massive snow storm today through Sunday (Sunday may be the worst day). As a result, the PetSafe desk is currently contacting customers whose animals are booked as connections through Newark for Friday - Sunday and rebooking those to Monday and beyond. However, we are leaving the animals connecting to our international flights in tact, as well as any animal whose destination is EWR or whose origin is EWR (if their flight operates, then the animal will go).

We are currently pre-cancelling hundreds of flights, and will continue to make hour to hour decisions as the weekends goes forward. For example, we've cancelled today's flights earlier this morning and will make decisions this evening (approx 6pm central time) about tomorrow's operation, etc. If you have pets booked in or through Newark this weekend, please check flight status of your booked flights at our website (passenger website - not cargo) http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/apps/travel/flightStatus/default.aspxto to see if it's been cancelled.

Any animals that can be rerouted over Houston, should be rerouted to be safe. (Please note that current forecasts call for some frozen precipitation in Houston again on Sunday night through Monday morning, but I'll update you again if we see cancelled flights happening in Houston. Keep your fingers crossed.)

Don't we know it! The picture above is from Amy Christy (International Pet Relocation Counselor here at Animal Land). It was taken in her back yard.