Air Animal Holiday Pet Travel Guide Helps Ease Angst of Travel
Air Animal offers pet families smart travel and planning tips to consider when planning trips with its Holiday Pet Travel guide. Air Animal serves people relocating for job opportunities, career advancement, military PCS and those returning to their home countries. Air Animal Pet Movers relocates pets moving with their families anywhere in the US by ground, by air or a combination of the two. For people moving overseas, Air Animal understands the destination requirements to get pets to their new homes with the least amount of stress.
“Our Air Animal team fields a sizable number of phone calls, LiveChat website inquiries and online requests for pet move proposals every day,” said Walter M. Woolf, Air Animal CEO and founding veterinarian. “We know the pet-friendly airlines. That’s why our team compiled our Holiday Pet Travel guide to help human holiday, leisure and vacation travelers.”
Air Animal’s 2020 Holiday Pet Travel guide (https://www.airanimal.com/blog/holidaypettravelfallwinteradogandcatadvisory.cfm) focuses on North, Central and South America. Pet travel health documents required vary between airlines and from one destination to another. For example, Hawaii’s protocol requires a rabies antibody test before entry. As long as human travelers follow all the pet travel rules, Hawaii waives quarantine. See the resources menu for country pet import requirements.
Consult Air Animal’s list before purchasing a non-refundable passenger ticket for fall or winter leisure travel. Find the airline with the pet travel and acceptance policy that permits pets as “cabin baggage” in the passenger compartment. Every passenger airline defines the number of pets eligible to fly as cabin baggage, their weight and size and the permitted breeds and species. Airline passenger cabin policies differ—especially when it comes to the number of pets allowed in the passenger compartment.
The fall/winter 2020 pet travel scenario includes families in the USA taking their pets with them visiting relatives overseas for special life cycle events, weddings, graduations and religious holidays. The common requirements for international pet leisure travel are:
- An implanted microchip for pet verification
- A rabies vaccination at least 30 days old but not more than one year old
- An international health certificate issued by a USDA-accredited veterinarian and validated by the USDA within 10 days of flight.
Canada, the Bahamas and Mexico do not require USDA endorsement for entry.
Summing Up
Leisure and holiday travelers should use the self-service Air Animal 2020 Holiday Pet Travel guide before booking holiday flights. Call the airlines and ask questions. Families relocating with pets, request a personalized pet move proposal using Air Animal’s 24/7 online form.