Delta Airlines will implement stricter requirements for passengers
traveling with emotional support animals, the company said Friday.
What kind of documentation can be required of persons
travelling with emotional support animals and psychiatric service animals?
The passenger in the middle seat in his row was
traveling with an emotional support animal — a dog weighing about 50 pounds.
I simply choose not to
travel with my emotional support alligator!
To
travel with an emotional support or psychiatric service animal you must provide recent documentation (within one year) to reservations at least 48 hours before flight.
In order for a customer to
travel with an emotional support animal, the customer must provide to a Southwest Airlines employee current documentation (not more than one year old) on letterhead from a mental health professional or medical doctor who is treating the customer's mental health - related disability stating: The passenger has a mental or emotional disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — Fourth Edition (DSM IV); the passenger needs the emotional support of psychiatric service animal as an accommodation for air travel and / or for activity at the passenger's destination; the individual providing the assessment is a licensed mental health professional or medical doctor, and the passenger is under his or her professional care AND; the date and type of mental health professional's or medical doctor's license and the state or other jurisdiction in which it was issued.
As of March 1, 2018, United has new, stricter requirements for customers
traveling with an emotional support animal or a psychiatric service animal.
Customers
traveling with an emotional support animal or psychiatric service animal will be required to submit a signed veterinary health form and / or an immunization record (current within one year of the travel date), an emotional support / psychiatric service animal request form that requires a letter prepared and signed by a doctor or licensed mental health professional, and a signed confirmation of animal training form.
Southwest maintains an open seating policy; however,
those traveling with emotional support animals may not occupy an emergency exit seat.
The topic of
traveling with emotional support animals came to the forefront when Delta... Continue reading New Travel Regulations Affect Service Animals
Customers
traveling with an emotional support animal or psychiatric service animal will be required to submit a signed Veterinary Health Form and / or an immunization record (current within one year of the travel date), an Emotional Support / Psychiatric Service Animal Request form which requires a letter prepared and signed by a doctor or licensed mental health professional, and a signed Confirmation of Animal Training form to Delta's Service Animal Support Desk via Delta.com at least 48 hours in advance of travel.
Passengers
traveling with emotional support / psychiatric service animals should arrange for their flights to arrive after 9 a.m. and by 3:30 p.m. Hawaiian time, because it may take up to 1 hour for the airlines to transport an animal to the Airport Animal Quarantine Holding Facility.
While an airline is allowed to require a passenger
traveling with an emotional support animal to provide written documentation that the animal is an emotional support animal, no such documentation is required for a service animal.
Beginning March 1, 2018, United will require additional documentation for customers
traveling with emotional support animal or a psychiatric service animal.
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I travel with my Emotional Support Animal hassle free.»
The topic of
traveling with emotional support animals came to the forefront when Delta Airlines announced that beginning March 1, 2018, it would require additional documentation for customers traveling with an emotional support animal.
Before You Go Before
traveling with your emotional support animal, service dog or any animal, you have some legwork to do before you buy tickets.
Not exact matches
American Airlines requires passengers who want to
travel with an
emotional or mental health
support animals to present a letter from a doctor that states the traveler needs the animal on board
with them as well as what his or her
emotional or mental disability is.
For Customers
traveling on a connecting itinerary
with Cape Air and another airline, please contact our partner airline prior to
travel as most have additional notification and documentation requirements that must be met to bring an
emotional support animal on board a connecting flight.
Upon returning to the northern part of the US, which is as far as we could
travel at the time, she then decided to keep both dogs because I was suicidal at finding myself in a new city,
with zero
emotional support, thousands of miles away from my former life in the SW and she thought it was what she needed to do to keep the dog safe, who was also dealing
with the split, as it had bonded
with the other dog and my ex.
A hard copy of a written statement, one per animal, current within one year, on letterhead from a mental health professional is required if you wish to
travel with a therapeutic /
emotional support animal.
When
traveling with an
emotional / psychiatric
support animal you are not permitted to sit in an emergency exit row.
Professional ID cards that identify your pet as an ESA will help minimize unnecessary confrontations and make
travelling and being in public
with your
emotional support animal much easier.
For security reasons, you won't be able to sit in an exit row when
traveling with your service or
emotional support animal.
In addition to the current requirement of a letter prepared and signed by a doctor or licensed mental health professional, those
with psychiatric service animals and
emotional support animals will also need to provide a signed document confirming that their animal can behave to prevent untrained, sometimes aggressive household pets from
traveling without a kennel in the cabin.
It permits service animals and
emotional support animals to
travel in the airplane cabin
with you.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) Air Carriers Access Act (ACAA) establishes a procedure for modifying pet policies on aircraft to permit a person
with a disability to
travel with a prescribed
emotional support animal, so long as they have appropriate documentation and the animal is not a danger to others or does not interfere
with others (through unwanted attention, excessive noise, blocking aisles, inappropriate toileting, etc.).
Per HDOA, passengers must follow the steps outlined in the link above to come into Hawaii without quarantine HDOA - hdoa.hawaii.gov; phone number: 808-483-7151; email:
[email protected] The service animal must be
traveling with the passenger
with a disability All animals are inspected upon arrival in Honolulu International Airport (HNL) at the Animal Quarantine Holding Facility, which operates 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. daily Passengers that have guide dogs or service dogs may request inspection at the HNL terminal between 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. if notified and approved by HDOA 7 days or more before
travel An
emotional support / psychiatric service animal (dogs or cats)
traveling to or through Honolulu International Airport must meet the requirements and be approved by the 5 - Day - Or-Less Quarantine program.
For example, when considering a downward deviation from the guideline child
support figure, it would be important for the court to know whether your child has any special physical or
emotional needs or whether there are any extraordinary costs associated
with parenting time (e.g., significant
travel expenses).
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