Pets and service animals

Flying with a pet or a service animal through ATL: what airlines ask for before you fly, where the animal relief areas are before and after security, and how to plan the time a dog needs between flights. These guides answer those questions from what the airport and the airlines publish, and the amenities pages list every relief area the airport locates.

• Flying out of Atlanta with a pet: relief areas, security and what airlines require

  Where a pet can relieve itself before and after ATL security, and what Alaska and Delta publish. ATL leaves pet rules to the airlines, so yours decides.

  • Before check-in, relief is outdoors
  • How early to arrive, and what security says about pets
  • After security, every concourse has an area
  • What the airlines require
• Pet relief areas at Atlanta airport: every spot by gate, and what each has

  Every ATL concourse has an indoor pet relief area, plus a dog park and an International Terminal spot. Gates, fittings and where ATL's pages disagree.

  • Where each relief area is
  • What the indoor areas have
  • Where to take a dog outside
  • Which one to use
• Service animals at Atlanta airport: relief areas, TSA screening and airline help

  ATL's relief areas are indoors on every concourse and open to all pets. What TSA does with a service animal, and what American, Delta and United say.

  • What the relief areas offer a handler
  • What TSA does with a service animal
  • What the airlines say
  • If a handler runs into a problem