Pets & Animals at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

Pets & Animals

Dog walk

The airport’s dog walk can provide a little stretching of legs and much needed relief for pets. Landscaped and lighted, the dog walk includes a pet drinking fountain, dog waste pick-up bag and trash receptacle. The dog walk is located outside the lower level, to the far, east end of the terminal past column numbered 6.

Pets, including dogs and other animals, are not allowed in the terminal, as per City Ordinance § 13-1-33 Restrictions on Animals except for:

an animal used by a law enforcement officer in the officer’s performance of duties;
a seeing-eye dog escorting a visually impaired person, or other animal being used for assistance to a disabled person; or
an animal that is being delivered to, or picked up from, an air carrier for transportation

Visitors who are not ticketed passengers may not bring their pets inside the terminal, including bag claim and the ticket lobby unless it meets one of the above exceptions.

Ticketed passengers with pets or a person responsible for an animal being shipped by an air carrier must:

restrain the animal by a leash or carry the animal in a cage approved for airline use;
take the animal directly to the air carrier for shipment; and
Remove the animal from the terminal as soon as delivery of the animal is taken from the air carrier.

A traveler carrying an animal in the secure area or through a screening point onto an aircraft must at all times keep the animal in a cage approved for airline use.

Source: City of Austin