Worried about Fido while you’re flying? Fret not: easyJet passengers can now organise a complimentary house sitter for their pet when booking a flight
Budget airline, easyJet, is offering travel loving pet owners a helping paw.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s airline - hailed the World's Leading Low-Cost Airline App 2017 at the 2017 World Travel Awards - has teamed up with international house and pet sitting business, TrustedHousesitters, to form a partnership that will make it easier for pet owners and animal lovers to travel around Europe.
Customers will be able to choose a free house sitter for their pet, or find free accommodation as a house and pet sitter when booking flights from early 2018.
easyJet will allow pet owners to match with verified members of the TrustedHousesitters online community to look after their homes, while animal lovers will be able to explore Europe, looking after pets in unique accommodation.
As well as every variety of cat and dog, pet sitters can find themselves looking after anything from chickens and pigs, to goats and llamas.
The accommodation is as diverse as the animals, with house sits available everywhere from French chateaus to stylish apartments in Paris, and bohemian getaways in Spain. There are even entire Greek islands that have been listed on the site.
The new initiative follows a survey of easyJet customers that revealed how the majority of pet owners would travel more, if they had better access to pet care.
Of the customers surveyed, 58 per cent said they would travel frequently if they had more satisfactory pet care solutions. Among those who found that owning pets made travelling more difficult, 62 per cent said that either the cost of pet care or concern for pet welfare prevented them from going away more often.
Andrew Middleton, Ancillary Revenue Director for easyJet, said: “easyJet is committed to making travel as easy as possible for our customers – this new partnership with TrustedHousesitters is the latest step we’ve taken to deliver on that promise.
“By helping holidaymakers find trusted people to look after their pets and homes or by helping them to find free accommodation in return for housesitting, we will make travel possible for even more people.”
TrustedHousesitters Managing Director, Tim Lyons, added:
“There are millions of pet owners in desirable locations all over the world without adequate pet care, we can now enable them to travel more often with peace of mind, boosting tourism while giving people more authentic travel experiences. This helps make travel easier and more affordable all round.
“Our speciality is connecting people with authentic and amazing places to stay which include the company of an adorable pet, easyJet’s speciality is getting people there - I think we will make a great team.”
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