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Guidance: Travel with assistance dogs: transport companies and routes

Animal Plant Health Agency

November 26
13:48 2024

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You must follow pet travel rules if you enter or return to the UK with your assistance dog.

These transport companies have agreed with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) how theyll check assistance dogs meet pet travel rules on these routes.

If you travel from an EU country, you can use other companies and routes, but you should check they:

  • accept assistance dogs
  • check pets meet travel rules

Your dog could be quarantined and you could be delayed if:

  • you travel with a company that is not registered with APHA
  • your assistance dog does not meet pet travel rules

Updates to this page

Published 28 June 2016
Last updated 26 November 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated the list of ferry and cruise companies registered to transport assistance dogs.

  2. The list of airports registered to check assistance dogs has been updated.

  3. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  4. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs. Updated the list of ferry and cruise companies registered to transport assistance dogs.

  5. In Ferry and cruise companies registered to transport assistance dogs, added entries for MSC Group x 11 to 2.1 Cruise Routes and vessel names x 5 for MSC to 2.2 Cruise Ships.

  6. Added SATA Internacional - Azores Airlines S.A. to the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  7. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs by removing Dundee Airport.Ferry route from UK added to 'Ferry routes and companies'. Updated lists of cruise routes and cruise ships.

  8. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  9. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  10. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  11. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  12. Updated details for Brussels Airlines in the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  13. Updated the list of airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  14. Updated email address for London Heathrow Airport on the list 'Airlines and airports registered to transport and check assistance dogs'.

  15. Amended the list for 'Ferry and cruise companies registered to transport assistance dogs'.

  16. Added Norwegian Cruise Line vessels to the list of cruise ships registered to transport assistance dogs with their owners.

  17. Removed the P&O Ferries route from Zeebrugge to Hull from the list of ferry and cruise companies registered to transport assistance dogs.

  18. Norse Atlantic Airways UK and Norse Atlantic Airways AS are registered to transport and check assistance dogs.

  19. Added 'Arvia' to the list of P&O Cruise ships registered to transport assistance dogs with their owners.

  20. Updated the pet checker details and phone numbers for Aberdeen airport.

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