US Airways declines PETA offer for caged bird protest ads

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OK, Lets free more birds so the can get injested into aircraft engines?Are =
these people stupid or what?=0A=0A=0A=0AUS Airways declines PETA offer for =
caged bird protest ads=0APhoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks =0A=09=
* Print=0A=09* Email=0A=09* Reprints=0A=09* RSS Feeds=0A=09* Add to Del.ici=
o.us=0A=09* Digg This=0A=09* Comments=0ARelated News=0A=09* US Airways cuts=
 233; Columbus on list=0A=09* Southwest Airlines gets fewest customer compl=
aints=0A=09* Airport traffic continues to grow in face of downturn=0AUS Air=
ways Group Inc. says =93no thanks=94 to an offer from the animal rights gro=
up People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to run ads on the airline=92=
s planes that criticize the caging of pet birds.=0AVirginia-based PETA offe=
red to buy ad space on overhead bins noting=0Athe physical and psychologica=
l problems caused when parrots, parakeets=0Aand other pet birds spend much =
of their lives in cages.=0AValerie Wunder, a spokesman for Tempe-based US A=
irways (NYSE:LCC),=0Asaid the airline is not interested. =93We currently do=
 not have an ad=0Aopportunity for overhead bins nor are we accepting propos=
als for them,=94=0Ashe said.=0APETA routinely lobbies Phoenix-based PetSmar=
t Inc. to stop selling small animals such as birds, mice and hamsters as pe=
ts.

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