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As with any transportation expert that specialises in safely moving pets, the main animals to move through Animal Aircare’s facilities are cats and dogs. However, that doesn’t stop the occasional interesting species coming through their doors.

On Animal Aircare’s busiest day, including reptiles as individual animals, the company can find itself handling around 120 pets in a 24 hour period. Just purely handling reptiles, they can see around 450 individual pets moving through the building in a single day.

Whether its ferrets, birds, reptiles or, indeed, 240 venomous snakes that require specialist handling, Animal Aircare is dedicated to ensuring its staff receive the appropriate training to allow them to safely and securely facilitate the transportation of whatever pet their customers need.

“For us, it’s being able to offer niche experience in the area and making sure that, you know, owners feel at ease,” Holliday said. “We’ve got a vast, credible amount of experience to handle everything they send us.”

Further growth

Animal Aircare entered Heathrow just over 12 months ago, seeking to add to existing alternatives at the airport. “We are here to complement,” Holliday said. “Competition is fair, you know, it’s healthy as well at the end of the day.”

While the company’s new facility might have only just celebrated its official opening, Animal Aircare is already looking at the next step in the company’s expansion and evolution

“There’s lots more future plans as well. We’ve got Gatwick, we’ve got Heathrow and we’ve also got operations at London Luton,” Holliday added. “We’ll continue to open facilities across the UK over the next few years.”