Need to move your pet from/to Atlanta, Georgia (ATL)?

Our Atlanta pet shipping services include:

• Door-to-door transportation, both international and domestic
• Travel consultation, planning, and flight reservations
• Coordination and communication for health requirements and documentation
• Local pet taxi service to and from the airport, your home, veterinarian or kennel/boarding facility – available in the Atlanta area as well as throughout the surrounding areas
• USDA endorsement of health certificate
• Pre-completion of the correct health certificate for country of import
• Local and long-distance ground transport delivery to and from ATL airport
• Meet at airport facility for flight check in when pet pickup is not needed
• Customs clearance in Atlanta and delivery to your home
• Airline approved travel crate that meets all IATA and USDA regulations; provided with bowls, stickers, absorbent bedding, personalized labels, identification and emergency notification instructions
• Boarding reservations

We can arrange ground transport for pets traveling to or from Mississippi, Tennessee, Northern Florida, North & South Carolina.

Shipping a pet from Atlanta

ATL’s cargo airlines include Delta Cargo, Southwest Airlines Cargo, Lufthansa and Qatar Airways, among others (airport’s cargo airline list). IAG Cargo handles live animals at ATL from the South Cargo Terminal, 4500 ASR Road, Building B (Alliance Ground International), and has a pet desk for pet enquiries that originate in the US and Canada (ATL station page). IAG Cargo requires all live-animal bookings except pet bookings from North America and the Caribbean to go through a freight forwarder with animal experience (live animals page).

Alaska Air Cargo limits animal shipments in hot weather: it generally takes no animal shipments when temperatures are over 85°F, and the summer season generally runs May 1 through October 16, with exceptions (Summer 2026 animal temperature embargo notice). Atlanta inbound shipments are allowed over 85°F, while outbound shipments are not allowed over 85°F, with a full embargo from June 1 to October 1 (Summer 2026 table). Beginning October 1, 2026, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air no longer accept certain brachycephalic (short-nosed) dog and cat breeds in the cargo hold (Alaska Air Cargo notice); see our guide to flying with snub-nosed pets.

Georgia requires proof of a current, approved rabies vaccination for every dog and cat entering the state, as set out in the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s entry rules. The Georgia Department of Agriculture also requires an entry permit, requested at least 48 hours before entry, for any warm-blooded animal (companion animals included) entering Georgia from an area affected by New World Screwworm (GDA announcement of June 5, 2026). Animals from Texas and the listed New Mexico counties that are outside an infested zone need a certificate of veterinary inspection issued within 7 days and stating they are free of screwworm (New World Screwworm page). These measures may be updated, so check the New World Screwworm page before you book.

To learn more, read where a pet travels on an airplane, is the cargo hold safe for pets and our U.S. airline pet policy guide.

Transcontinental Pet Movers is a professionally run, dedicated service for international and domestic pet moving. We’re IATA, IPATA, USDA licensed and CBP Bonded.

To ensure your pet is well taken care of, we are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.