{"id":12297,"date":"2013-07-21T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-airlines-gone-to-the-dogs\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:52:20","slug":"struth-airlines-gone-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/07\/struth-airlines-gone-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Airlines gone to the dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GWNMqpJHNi0\/UeutDfQPrlI\/AAAAAAAAgu8\/2-ruvgeMMCM\/s1600\/Aircraft%2BVirgin%2BAustralia%2Bpets%2BFF%2Bpoints-756628.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GWNMqpJHNi0\/UeutDfQPrlI\/AAAAAAAAgu8\/2-ruvgeMMCM\/s400\/Aircraft%2BVirgin%2BAustralia%2Bpets%2BFF%2Bpoints-756628.png\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders if Virgin Australia flights may soon start resembling aerial Noah&#8217;s Arks as we&#8217;re encouraged to take our pampered pets with us on holidays flights \u2013 and maybe even on the odd business trip as well.<\/p>\n<p>Because Virgin&#8217;s offering its Velocity Frequent Flyer members, Points for every time they take their pet with them aboard a domestic flight within Australia.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll earn 300 Points per pet in a Virgin Pet Carrier if a Red category member, 450 Silver, 525 for Gold and 600 Points if a Platinum member, with double points for taking a maximum two Pet Carriers on a flight.<\/p>\n<p>Puts a whole new slant on suggestions that flying&#8217;s Gone To The Dogs\u2026\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis wonders if Virgin Australia flights may soon start resembling aerial Noah&#8217;s Arks as we&#8217;re encouraged to take our pampered pets with us on holidays flights \u2013 and maybe even on the odd business trip as well. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-12297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth-3","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15653,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}