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Date Posted: 06:39:43 03/16/03 Sun
Author Host/IP: host-216-78-8-6.lft.bellsouth.net/216.78.8.6
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
DOBERMAN PINSCHER CLUB OF AMERICA
TO: All interested persons
FROM: Jeffrey P. Helsdon, Legislative Director
March 14, 2003
American Airlines is about to announce that, effective immediately, it is
reversing its seven month old policy of profiling certain breeds of dogs
from
being carried as cargo on American Airlines carriers.
The DPCA is the first dog organization, or any other organization, to break
this news, which comes from the highest sources within American Airlines.
The breed-profiling policy was adopted last August, after an AA flight to
New
York during which a dog escaped from the cargo hold and chewed through the
cargo hold wall.
The change in AA policy comes after an initial storm of protest from the
pure-bred dog fancy in general, organized in large part through the
leadership of the DPCA. Over the past six months, members of the DPCA
Legislative Committee have conducted confidential, high level negotiations
directly with AA officers charged with the responsibility for implementing
the breed profiling policy. At one point, a DPCA Legislative Committee
member held discussions with an AA officer in the first class section of an
AA 747 traveling across the Pacific to China.
As a result of the DPCA’s intensive, high level negotiations, AA has
crafted,
and is about to implement, a crate securing procedure that will be used on
all dog crates flying on AA flights irrespective of breed of dog being
shipped, to ensure the safety of passengers and crew flying on AA.
Releasable cable ties will be used on all crates flown in cargo.
The reversal of the breed profiling ban is effective immediately. Between
May and September, the crate securing procedure will be perfected on dogs
flown in crates as cargo only. Dogs flown as additional baggage will be
subject to the new crate securing procedure beginning in September, giving
the procedure an opportunity to be perfected during the summer months.
The DPCA is indebted to the efforts of numerous Doberman fanciers throughout
the world who called, wrote, and e-mailed AA, which was flooded with mail in
opposition to their breed profiling policy. A special thanks, which is well
deserved, goes to Ms. Judy Smith, whose singular efforts on behalf of the
DPCA to address this wrong are in large measure responsible for the success
that we now enjoy.
Please disseminate to all lists.
Jeffrey P. Helsdon
Sloan Bobrick Oldfield & Helsdon, P.S.
7610 – 40th Street West
University Place, WA 98466
253-759-9500
253-414-3515 (Direct)
253-752-5324 (Fax)
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