Southwest Airlines Emotional Support Animals. 17 regarding service and emotional support animals on flights. Guidelines for traveling with an emotional support animal:
The animal must be in a carrier that can be stowed under the seat in front of the handler or kept on a leash at all times while at the airport and aboard the aircraft. Southwest airlines on tuesday issued a new policy to go into effect sept. Animals used for a customer's emotional support are accepted in the cabin.
Southwest airlines required documentation to travel with an emotional support dog or cat.
Carriers including southwest airlines co, delta air lines, united airlines and american airlines in recent years have limited emotional support animals in cabins to largely dogs and cats after passengers boarded with exotic pets such as monkeys, pigs and birds that could pose a safety risk. The new rules stopped short of banning emotional support animals outright, but proponents said that airlines would no longer have to accommodate nonservice animals in the cabin. The changes are designed to provide clearer guidance to customers traveling with service animals and will go into effect on monday, september 17. 17 regarding service and emotional support animals on flights.