Stowaway Cat Upgraded to Business Class
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 12.01.05 | 10:48 AM ET
A family cat from Wisconsin that somehow ended up in Paris, France several weeks ago will return home today—in a business class seat.
Reuters has the details.
The cat, called Emily, escaped from her house in Appleton, Wisconsin, in late September, wandering over to a distribution center and eventually ending up on a sea container that landed in Belgium.
Workers at a laminating company in Nancy, France found the cat, which was wearing I.D. tags, nearly a month after it disappeared.
Continental said it contacted and offered assistance to Emily’s owners, who accepted the carrier’s offer of a business class seat from Paris to Newark, one of the New York area’s three major airports.
The cat, which is leaving after a month in French quarantine, will make the trip on Thursday in a carrying case and have an escort, probably an airline employee, said airline spokeswoman Courtney Wilcox.
Its menu has yet to be determined, she said.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
