Escort · 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Escort a dog on your flight

An already-adopted dog often waits weeks, sometimes months, for want of someone to accompany it on a flight. It is the bottleneck of international rescue.

The principle: you are already travelling on a given route. The organization books the dog on your flight, prepares all its documents and hands it over at the departure airport. Someone picks it up on arrival. You pay nothing and you don't keep the dog. Depending on the airline, an animal registered under a passenger's name travels in cabin or in hold, with size, crate and temperature rules that vary. The organization knows these rules better than you.

What it actually asks of you: arriving earlier at the airport, signing documents, and about an hour more on arrival. Nothing else.

Always check three points before accepting: that the organization provides all health documents in advance, that someone is confirmed at arrival, and that the airline has validated the booking. A well-organized escort is prepared weeks in advance, never the day before.

If you travel regularly between your country and one of the countries in this list, let the local organizations know. They keep lists of available travellers.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Note

A reality unique to the Emirates: every wave of expatriate departures leaves behind abandoned dogs, tied to posts or released into the desert, and shelters are overwhelmed. Leaving with your dog is, however, possible and regulated: the rules allow the export of two dogs per person per year, the paperwork is obtained from MOCCAE, and IPATA-certified carriers organize the trip from start to finish. What is missing is never the solution, it is the planning: the process should start months before departure, not the week of the move. If you are leaving, leave together. And if you are staying, the shelters below need foster homes for the dogs others have left behind.

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