Hi does anyone know if you can fly a dog/puppy out of birmingham international as excess baggage?  If so which airlines, puppy is off to scandinavia.
thanks

It's down to the airline not the airport.  So you need to cotnac the airlines that fly your route.

We used SAS to transport our pup,as excess baggage ,from Sweden to Italy...I can highly recommend them.
http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info/Other/Travel-with-animals/
Your pup would have to fly cargo,it says here..
http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info/Other/Travel-with-animals/Animals-in-cargo-hold/

> Your pup would have to fly cargo,it says here..
> [url=http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info/Other/Travel-with-animals/Animals-in-cargo-hold/" rel=nofollow]http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info/Other/Travel-with-animals/Animals-in-cargo-hold/[/url]

It says clearly they can fly excess baggage???

We traveled to Sweden and collected pup ,he flew in the hold of the plane as excess baggage.
If the breeder had sent him to us,unaccompanied  ,the costs were much more ,and he would be classified as cargo.
I assumed from the post that the person is sending a pup unaccompanied..ie as cargo,not accompanied as excess baggage.

I would assume the new owner is coming to collect, because as you say excess baggage has to be with a passenger.

Thanks to everyone for all your replies, have finally got to the bottom of this.

There is nothing stopping you DEFRA wise of flying out of the uk with a dog as excess baggage
but no airline in the uk will do this except to fly to the USA where 2 do, virgin being one.
I cant figure out if it is the airline or the airport... probably the latter tbh.

Im not sure if this is to keep the animal couriers in business or what but it does seem unfair when cargo is sooo expensive and legislatively speaking unnecessary.

Needless to say the dog will not be flying cargo his would cost more than the puppy!

Happy to say we have resolved it with alternate travel arrangements, albeit longer ones

Shame on the airlines and the airports in the UK though

No it isn't the case, it is up to the airline, after all they re loaded into the plane the same whether it's cargo or Excess baggage, only the processing at the other end is different.

Excess baggage pets get taken to baggage claim.

I have flown Excess baggage with Finnair (to Finland), and also to USA using American Airlines (yes Virgin require you use a courier and only do cargo).

You need to check with each individual airline as to their rules.

Have also had new owners take pups as excess baggage in cabin to Spain and USA, as they were just within the weight range for in cabin carriage.

As far as I am aware most of the Scandinvian Airlines alow this option, as  does KLM all over Europe and beyond.