As air travel gets ever-more expensive and chaotic for humans, it's much the same story for our four-legged companions.

Post-Covid, cancelled flights and crew and ground staff shortages have made transporting pets fraught with difficulty.

Even before the pandemic, they faced a stressful journey in a cage in the aircraft hold. Some owners would baulk at the expense and trouble, and rehome or even abandon their animals.

Now, for the price of a first-class single ticket (around £7,000), pets can travel seated next to their owners in the cabin (though cats must stay in their carriers), hassle-free to Paris, Nice, Lisbon, Dubai, New Jersey and Los Angeles.

G6 caters for high-net-worth (HNW) families, pop stars, footballers and foreign royalty. In 2022, the company received an extraordinary request for a flight to New York for ten passengers — and ten dogs.

Adam and Kirsty found a Facebook group where people had discussed chipping in for a private jet (which costs from around £5,000 per hour) so their pets could travel with them, and the Golders saw an opportunity.

They set up K9 Jets — a brokerage with flights operated by a licenced carrier in the U.S. — solely for people travelling with their pets, and have since flown more than 100 — including dogs, cats and rabbits, but definitely no snakes.

Read the full article by Iram Ramzam for the Daily Mail at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12052501/Would-shell-7-000-holiday-private-jet-pet.html