Philippine Airlines Caught Lying About Its Record of Cruelty

Philippine
Airlines is one of only three major airlines
that still ship primates to laboratories where they are tormented and killed in cruel experiments, but you wouldn’t know
it from talking to its representatives. Airline reps have recently been telling
concerned PETA members who call their offices that they don’t ship monkeys and
have not done so for a long time—but that’s
a lie.

PETA has obtained documents that show that Philippine Airlines has shipped nearly 200 pig-tailed macaque monkeys
from Indonesia to the University
of Washington’s Washington National Primate Research Center in Seattle within the past 12 months alone. The documentation is crystal clear,
containing invoices, tracking numbers, flight numbers, and many other details. There
may be other such shipments as well.

Because of the growing pressure from PETA and its supporters around the world, Philippine Airlines could no longer ignore
the issue and released a statement on its website and Facebook page that read, “Philippine
Airlines is not engaged in the transport of wild, endangered or threatened
animals, regardless of their purpose.” Yet the pig-tailed macaques it sent
to the hellish laboratory mentioned above are widely considered a threatened species. When PETA and PETA Asia-Pacific
e-mailed and called Philippine Airlines asking that the airline explain the
discrepancy between the records and its new statement, it quietly removed the
statement from its website and Facebook. 

What You Can Do

Clearly, Philippine Airlines is hearing our international protests
loud and clear, and we need to keep it up to make sure that it gets out of the
monkey business for good. Please call the ticket and cargo offices at the
numbers below and politely tell the representative that you will not be giving
any business to Philippine Airlines until it stops shipping monkeys to
laboratories:

808-840-1100

310-646-1966

650-588-5020

415-217-3144

If you’re told that the airline has already stopped, ask the
representative to tell you and PETA in writing.