Dot Regulations On Emotional Support Animals

Department of Transportation DOT Delta will no longer recognize emotional support animals as service animals beginning January 11 2021.

Dot regulations on emotional support animals. Under the new guidelines only dogs may be designated as service animals and owners must attest that they are specially trained to provide services to the passenger among other requirements. The Department of Transportation has cleared the air somewhat on how airlines may decide which animals can travel in the cabin with their owners and flight crews are breathing easier. DOT proposes emotional support animal changes The DOT has now opened a period for public comment regarding a new proposal that would lay the framework for airlines to ban emotional support animals.

The DOT has supported the airlines rights to restrict animals less than 4 months old from flying as a service or emotional support animal. Second the ACAA requires airlines to recognize service animals regardless of species with exceptions for certain unusual species of. Airlines can further crackdown on the practice of classifying a.

The following is meant as a general guide to the rules and regulations around emotional support animals. The US Department of Transportation no longer classifies an emotional support animal as a service animal. In accordance with the final rule from the US.

First the ACAA currently requires airlines to recognize emotional support animals as service animals. Emotional Support and Psychiatric Service Animals- Airlines can request specific documentation andor 48-hours advanced notice for service animals that are emotional support animals and psychiatric service animals. Allows airlines to require forms developed by DOT attesting to a service animals health behavior and training and if taking a long flight attesting that the service animal can either not relieve itself or can relieve.

We will honor reservations submitted and confirmed by Delta prior to January 11 2021 but will not accept new EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL reservations for upcoming travel. Last week the DOT essentially rid the already-cramped aluminum tubes of emotional support animals which have heretofore been limited only by the imaginations and temerity. The US Department of Transportation published its final rule on Traveling by Air with Service Animals today bringing an end to the Emotional Support Animal ESA era.

Requiring documentation for psychiatric support animals and emotional support animals. Most airlines reacting to the DOT rules change are barring Emotional Support Animals ESA which limits support animals in the cabin to trained service animals. As part of the DOTs final rule on traveling by air with service animals the department has given airlines permission to strip emotional support animals ESAs of the service animal treatment.