(by 5 people)
Earlier this year, my wife and I moved from Boston to San Francisco, bringing along Trixie, our 10-year-old shorthair domestic cat. Here's some information that we collected along the way.
General pet travel links
- Traveling With Your Pet
- Some basic information about traveling with your pet.
- Flying with a Cat
- Flying with a cat, helpful information for anyone traveling by plane with their cat. Based on the author's own experiences on an overseas flight with her cat, Zeerox.
Underseat pet carrier options
Sherpa Pet Delta Air Lines Deluxe Pet Carrier
This pet carrier was supposedly developed with input from Delta Airlines. While it nominally exceeds the carry-on size limitations for pets for most airlines, we used this without any problems.
Amazon Price: $49.99 (as of 07/04/2008)
Airline Information
- Summary of Airline Pet-Transport Policies
- This page contains a handy summary of pet travel guidelines for most US airlines.
- Delta
- Delta Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- JetBlue
- JetBlue Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- United
- United Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- Continental
- Continental Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- AirTran
- Airtran Airways pet travel guidelines.
- Alaska/Horizon
- Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air pet travel guidelines.
- America West
- America West pet travel guidelines.
- American
- American Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- ATA
- ATA pet travel guidelines.
- Frontier
- Frontier Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- Northwest
- Northwest Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- Southwest
- Southwest Airlines pet travel guidelines.
- US Airways
- US Airways pet travel guidelines.
