Edelweiss Air: flying with a dog

📍 Switzerland🐾 Cabin ≤ 8 kg✓ Verified 8 Aug 2026

★ Possible

Cabin and hold are both open, with a clear kennel-size table and generous service-dog terms — but the fee page reads as stale, and cargo for an unaccompanied pet is entirely outsourced to sister carrier SWISS.

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⚖️ Where does your dog travel?

Cabin≤ 8 kg

Hold≤ 14 kg per kennel

Unaccompaniedvia SWISS WorldCargo

Weight includes the carrier or kennel.

🐾 CabinAllowed

8 kg (dog/cat + carrier), waterproof soft container up to 55 × 40 × 23 cm, stowed under the seat, closed for the whole flight. At least 12 weeks old (6 months for USA flights). No bulkhead or emergency-exit seats. Max 2 animals per person. Book up to 4 days ahead via the Service Center.

CHF 90 Europe / CHF 105 Levant & Egypt / CHF 115–140 intercontinental (from Dec 2025 rates)

🧳 HoldAllowed

Kennel sizes from 57×37×36 cm up to 125×75×85 cm. Up to two animals of comparable size, 14 kg or less each, may share a kennel. No kennel rental at Edelweiss — buy one at Zurich Airport (Swissport counter 124) or a pet shop. No food or drink can be given in flight, since the hold is lit and heated but not accessible.

CHF 90–220 by zone and kennel size (from Dec 2025 rates)

✈️ CargoVia SWISS WorldCargo

For an unaccompanied pet, or where a destination requires it — Mauritius, for instance, only accepts pets as cargo. Edelweiss doesn't handle this itself; it hands the whole booking, pricing and process off to SWISS WorldCargo, its Lufthansa Group sister company.

Not published by Edelweiss

⚠️ Key restrictions

🐶 Fighting breeds — cabin banned

American Bulldog, American Bully & others

American Bulldog, American Bully, Caucasian Ovcharka, Dogo Argentino, Kangal/Karabash and Rottweiler are barred from the cabin. American Bully separately appears on the hold's brachycephalic-exclusion list too, so it reads as barred from both compartments on this page.

😤 Brachycephalic breeds — hold banned

Hold forbidden

A long list of snub-nosed dog breeds (Affenpinscher, American Bully, all Bulldogs except American Bulldog, all Pugs, Boston Terrier, Boxer, Brussels Griffon, Bull Mastiff, Bull Terrier except Miniature, Chow Chow, King Charles Spaniel, Lhasa Apso, Pekinese, Shar Pei, Shih Tzu, Tibetan Spaniel and more) and cat breeds (British Shorthair, Exotic Shorthair, Himalayan, Persian, Scottish Fold) are barred from the hold — Edelweiss's stated reasoning: they're "particularly sensitive to temperatures and transport stress."

🐶 Check whether your dog is snub-nosed

Edelweiss Air refuses brachycephalic (snub-nosed) breeds in the hold. What the airline itself wrote is in the restrictions above — that text alone says which breeds it turns away.

These 31 breeds are MyDogCanFly's own brachycephalic classification, heaviest first — it is not the list published by Edelweiss Air. Use it to situate your dog, then read the airline's own wording above and confirm with it before booking.

🌡️ Temperature & hold

Numeric temperature limits: not disclosed

No °C threshold is published beyond the general brachycephalic-sensitivity rationale — notable given Edelweiss's own long-haul leisure routes to Mauritius, Zanzibar, Cancún, Punta Cana, Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada.

📦 Check your crate size for this airline →

🦮 Assistance dog

❓ Assistance dogs

Free, no size or weight limit — an explicit, stated exception to the 8 kg pet cap. One free service dog on non-USA flights, two on direct USA flights. From 4 months old (younger than the 12-week/6-month rule for ordinary pets). Certificate from ADI, ADEu or IGDF (non-USA) or the US DOT Service Animal form (USA); "an obedience certificate is not sufficient." Emotional support animals are explicitly excluded — standard paid pet rules apply to them instead.

ℹ️ Good to know

📅 A rate change still framed as upcoming, months laterThe fee page still frames its rates as "Until November 30, 2025" and "From December 1, 2025" — a changeover that took effect roughly eight months before this fiche was verified, suggesting the page copy hasn't been refreshed since.

🧾 A currency missing from one tableThe pre-December-2025 hold fee table lists CHF, GBP, USD and CAD — but not EUR, even though the cabin fee table for the same period does include EUR. EUR only appears in the hold table once the December 2025 rates begin.

🗺️ Where Edelweiss Air flies with dogs

Main hubs

Zurich ZRH

Destinations — entry rules (16 of 31)

Canada Cape Verde Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Dominican Republic Egypt Georgia Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Jamaica Maldives Mauritius

Flying with a dog on Edelweiss Air: common questions

Can my dog travel in the cabin on Edelweiss Air?

Edelweiss Air — Allowed. 8 kg (dog/cat + carrier), waterproof soft container up to 55 × 40 × 23 cm, stowed under the seat, closed for the whole flight. At least 12 weeks old (6 months for USA flights). No bulkhead or emergency-exit seats. Max 2 animals per person. Book up to 4 days ahead via the Service Center.…

Does Edelweiss Air carry dogs in the hold?

Hold — Allowed. Kennel sizes from 57×37×36 cm up to 125×75×85 cm. Up to two animals of comparable size, 14 kg or less each, may share a kennel. No kennel rental at Edelweiss — buy one at Zurich Airport (Swissport counter 124) or a pet shop.…

Does Edelweiss Air accept flat-faced (brachycephalic) breeds?

Edelweiss Air — Hold forbidden. A long list of snub-nosed dog breeds (Affenpinscher, American Bully, all Bulldogs except American Bulldog, all Pugs, Boston Terrier, Boxer, Brussels Griffon, Bull Mastiff, Bull Terrier except Miniature, Chow Chow, King Charles Spaniel, Lhasa Apso, Pekinese, Shar Pei, Shih Tzu, Tibetan Sp…

Does Edelweiss Air suspend dog transport in hot weather?

Are assistance dogs accepted on Edelweiss Air?

Edelweiss Air — Assistance dogs. Free, no size or weight limit — an explicit, stated exception to the 8 kg pet cap. One free service dog on non-USA flights, two on direct USA flights. From 4 months old (younger than the 12-week/6-month rule for ordinary pets).…

Answers drawn from Edelweiss Air's published conditions, last verified 8 August 2026. Airline conditions are commercial and can change — confirm at booking.

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