• NPR's Morning Edition, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:30 AM

A new airline starting up this summer will offer passengers free meals and no baggage fees. Only hitch is that you've got to walk on all fours, climb into a cage and be willing to be called a "pawssenger."

In the beginning, Pet Airways will fly out of five cities -- Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Chicago and Denver -- on Beechcraft planes that normally carry 19 humans. Fares start at $149 each way, water and food included.

Pet Airways' planes have been reconfigured with carriers and the dogs and cats (only) will be watched by an attendant full time. Alas, the late Leona Helmsley's millionaire pooch will have to travel with the hoi polloi. There is no first class.

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