Companion Air ready to transport pets

Recent talk about requiring airlines to divulge statistics on transporting pets — such as deaths en route — have led some airlines to threaten to stop carrying pets.

Not so with a small airline called Companion Air, which plans to specialize in flying pets and their owners across the country. The company, founded in 2001 by a couple of pet lovers, expects to use six-passenger aircraft that allow contact between owners and pets during the flight.

The company is going through a certification process and it will be May at the earliest before it begins service. Fares and schedules posted on its Web site vary according to the demand and timing, whether the trip is one-way or round-trip, and whether the pet travels alone or with a human.

More information is available at www.companionair.com.

Free guide highlights British golf courses

“Golf in Britain” is a new map folder that identifies about 150 golf courses in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The guide also points out nearby sight-seeing points that family members or others who aren’t on the links can visit.

The free guide can be obtained from the British Tourist Authority at 1-877-899-8391 or at www.travelbritain.org.

Theater plans festival featuring Rogers films

Tulsa, Oklahoma — A Tulsa theater plans a Will Rogers film festival, showing eight of the Oklahoma humorist’s movies.

The movies included in the March 3-6 festival at the Cinemark Theater in south Tulsa have been enhanced through a transfer from film to DVD technology.

“A Connecticut Yankee,” based on Mark Twain’s fantasy novel, starts the festival March 3. On March 4, the festival features Rogers’ “They Had to See Paris,” in which the journalist and cowboy plays a Claremore garage owner who strikes oil and takes his wife to France.

The post-Civil War film, “Judge Priest,” starts the show March 5.