Chicago’s Midway airport is so much more pleasant than O’Hare, and here’s one reason: There is a pet relief area, and you can easily find it. The airport’s web site is fairly useless (“The Animal Relief Area is curbside, on the lower level.”),… Read the rest
Reader Patty, planning a trip from Nassau, in the Bahamas, to Victoria, B.C., sent me an e-mail and told me that she’d seen my posts about U.S. airport pet relief areas and wondered if Toronto’s Pearson International Airport had a designated pet relief area.… Read the rest
When we were visiting dear friends in Orange County last spring, I told them I was trying to pin down where the Santa Ana airport pet relief area was, because the directions on the airport’s web site were unclear (they’ve been improved greatly since then).… Read the rest
When I had a layover in Dallas last week, I dashed out to look for pet relief areas. According to the DFW website, there are pet relief areas at all five terminals (A through E). I arrived at Terminal D, and had just enough time to locate one of the two Terminal D pet relief areas.… Read the rest
I arrived at IAH last week on a Continental flight from Seattle, and landed at Terminal C. I wasn’t traveling with Chloe, for once, but I had enough layover time to check out a couple of pet relief areas. According to IAH’s web site, there are pet relief areas at all but one of the airport’s five terminals (Terminal E is the exception).… Read the rest
LAX has five [now four, per reader Kate’s report (see below)] pet relief areas, and when we visited sunny SoCal last week I spent an afternoon visiting them all. Here’s what I’ve learned — and here’s a map of LAX to consult.… Read the rest
Reader Karen, returning to Indianapolis from a visit to Long Beach with Ezra, her Papillon, wrote to tell me about the pet relief area at the Indianapolis International Airport (IND). I knew from the airport’s site that there are two official outdoor pet relief areas, “in the grassy areas of the North Garden and the South Garden.”… Read the rest
On the bright side, SFO is an airport that (a) has pet relief areas, and (b) is willing to reveal their locations. They’re on the SFO airport map (look at the interactive map and click on “services” and “Animal Relief Areas”), and upon inquiry you’ll get written directions too.… Read the rest
We flew on JetBlue from Seattle to JFK this morning, and had the pleasure of seeing Terminal 5 (or “T5”) for the first time. Very sleek, good stores and restaurants, and, at the baggage claim level, easy-to-follow signs to the easily-located pet relief area.… Read the rest
