[NAGDU] going on US domestic flights with a guide dog

[Dan Weiner]

Hello, beautiful people:


Dan W. from Florida with the Parker dog here.

I want to clear up  something. I hear a lot lately about various 
airlines, Delta and United for example, requiring documentation, whether 
vet records  or forms filled out for those of us who fly with in quotes 
service dogs. I put in quotes because I'm a guide dog user and that is 
what concerns me at this point.. Is any of this stuff applicable to us. 
I had always thought that in domestic flights in the US that the FAA 
regulations or air carrier access act allowed access without any 
additional rigamarole, essential in my traveling days, I would show up, 
on occasion I told when making the reservation that I had a dog, most 
times I didn't, and I literally had no problems.  So what is the scoop 
nowadays. It concerns me that when I look at several of the guide dog 
school web sites here in the States that it seems like they are just 
going along with  it telling students that "remember to check with the 
airlines about t required forms" or something strange like this.

I haven't been flying in several years and am looking to get back in to 
traveling by air which of course includes my pup.

Who can give me the definitive answer...am I as a guide dog user 
required to fill out these bizarre service dog forms  or do anything 
else in advance or required to bring random documentation on domestic US 
air flights...I don't mean in quotes "oh the airlines are saying they 
want it so why not bring it..."smile, I mean the actual requirements, 
I've even herd from some fellow guide dog  users saying "Oh I filled out 
the  forrs and I had no problems the airline such and such was very 
nice"-- So I don't want that either, anyway you probably get it.

Who wants to give me the skinny, the bottom line, the scoop...


Yours,

Dan and the Parker Hound

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