Southwest Airlines Emotional Support Animals. Southwest airlines emotional support animal policy. Support animals must be under supervision by the owner and on a leash at all times or in a carrier.

The animal may not extend into the aisle. Trained service and emotional support animals are permitted on southwest airlines flights, subject to compliance with certain safety and documentation requirements. The only reason i have been able to fly these past few years is due to my emotional support dog.

Southwest airlines required documentation to travel with an emotional support dog or cat.

The customer has only one emotional support animal. Southwest airlines’ new policy on emotional support animals in another attempt to reign in the proliferation of fake service and support animals, southwest’s new policy adopts the middle ground. The new rules stopped short of banning emotional support animals outright, but proponents said that airlines would no longer have to accommodate nonservice animals in the cabin. People suffering from emotional and mental disabilities may find the entire travel ordeal to be quite overwhelming.