Door to door, flying will be closer to 12 hours (depending on source/destination proximities to airports), plus the time for someone to drive to wait around/pick you up and drop you off at the airport. So probably more like 14-15 man-hours total time spent getting you from door to door. Then you gotta deal with dog shock and whatever packing nightmares that part of the trip entails. Plus, no bike, unless you want to chalk up another 3-hours round trip to pack that thing up 2 times as well, and unpack assemble 2 times.