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By Jung Hae-myoung
Asiana Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE), an animal rights organization, Thursday, to support transportation of dogs that are to be adopted overseas.
The volunteers of CARE will be able to use a designated check-in counter at Incheon International Airport and the carrier's business lounge, and be allowed to take one additional piece of luggage free of charge when they accompany the dogs to any city in the Unites States where the airline operates.
Many dogs adopted overseas are large-sized, because it is relatively hard for big dogs to find homes in Korea. "That's why we provide the support for flights to the U.S., where pet culture is relatively more mature and large dogs are frequently adopted," an Asiana official said.
"Living at a time when 10 million people live with pets here, we hope more people will have more interest in abandoned ones through this agreement," the official said.
In July 2017, Asiana Airlines increased the weight limit of pets that can be accompanied on the plane ― from 5 kilograms to 7 kilograms to be carried in the cabin, and from 32 kilograms to 45 kilograms to be checked as "luggage."
