Trying to smuggle the cat into the plane cabin.

Aware of the fact that Viktor was too heavy to get into the cabin, Michael Galin used a less heavy cat that passed the necessary measurements of animal weight.

Mikhail and Victor were supposed to fly from Riga to Vladivostok. However, according to Aeroflower regulations, domestic animals weighing over eight pounds [8 kg] must be placed in the trunk.

Mikhail made a mistake in his steps when he posted details from his Facebook action. He called the operation “the replacement of the thick cat Victor”. A photo in his profile shows Victor in the cabin of a plane near a glass of champagne.

He described how he smuggled his pet into the cabin in the first part of the flight. He wrote that he had traveled with Viktor from Riga to Vladivostok with a stop in Moscow. However, when he tried to get on the second leg of his flight to Moscow, the Aeroflower staff did not allow Viktor to get into the passenger cabin.

The forest showed that the animal weighed ten pounds [10 kg], which is an illegal weight for bringing an animal to the cabin,” wrote Galin.

Refusing to allow his pet to be carried into the trunk, Galin pushed the flight, deciding to find a less weighty cat in Moscow. He managed to do so, so he returned to the airport a day later with a double “”, which had passed the weight limit test. He then returned the owners to the airport before boarding the plane to fly to Vladivostok.

However, the Aeroflower did not like Galini's trick, which caused the administration to investigate and find the images of security cameras showing the replacement of two cats.

Mikhail Galin was fined for the removal of about 400,000 miles of reward he had collected during many years of Aeroflower flight.