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Guidance: Pet travel: approved air, sea and rail carriers and routes

Animal Plant Health Agency

May 23
06:36 2025

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You can only use these carriers and routes approved by the Animal and Plant Health Agency to bring your pet to England or Scotland. There are no approved routes to Wales.

You must follow pet travel rules. Ask your travel company if they have extra rules you must follow.

Exemptions

You dont have to use an approved carrier or route if you travel to England, Scotland or Wales from:

  • UK countries
  • the Channel Islands
  • the Isle of Man
  • the Republic of Ireland

Updates to this page

Published 13 August 2015
Last updated 23 May 2025 show all updates
  1. Updated the list of airlines and airports you can use for pet travel.

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  4. Under 2. Charter airlines, updated existing entries for ADM Aviation, Astonjet Malta, Exxaero GmbH (Germany), Exxaero BV (Netherlands), Jet Select LLC?, MPC Holding, ?Sino Jet Cayman, Tatra Jet, Transwing; added new entry for RSB Investments.

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