Russian fat cat smuggler loses his air miles

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A Russian airline confirms a traveller lost his air miles over a scheme to sneak his overweight cat Viktor onto an aeroplane by switching him for a slimmer pet during check-in.

Russia's Aeroflot air carrier has stripped a passenger of his air miles after he boasted online of sneaking his overweight cat on board by switching him for a slimmer cat during check-in.The carrier's weight limit for checking in an animal was 8kg, but cat Viktor had ballooned to 10kg in recent months

"The weigh-in showed that the animal had fattened up to 10kg, a level not allowed for the cabin," Mr Galin wrote.But he could not abandon his nervous feline friend to the cold luggage hold, so he refused to fly and took a"strategic decision to find a similar cat of a lower weight" in Moscow. He posted a photo of happy Viktor sitting on the plane with a glass of bubbly, becoming an instant hero for Russia's cat lovers.Aeroflot however was in no mood for jokes and said the incident had triggered an investigation.

 

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SahClaire Lost the miles maybe. Made millions of friends,

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Corrupt Russian fat cat really is a cat.

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