AFP, MOSCOWRussian airline Aeroflot on Tuesday stripped a passenger of his air miles after he boasted online of sneaking his overweight cat on board a plane by switching him for a slimmer cat during check-in. Mikhail Galin wrote on Facebook last week that his cat, Viktor, was judged too fat to be taken into the passenger cabin during a layover in Moscow on a trip from Latvia to his home in Vladivostok. The probe into the cat swap showed that Galin broke airline rules by switching Viktor for “a similar animal weighing 7kg,” which was confirmed on video surveillance footage, the airline said. “Aeroflot has taken the decision to take this passenger out of its frequent-flyer program. “Many of us often quietly flew around with our fat kitties, and now we won’t be able to,” Svetlana Pogorelskaya told Galin on Facebook.

Source: Taipei Times November 13, 2019 16:00 UTC