Miracle Flights
Service-Dog Training and Retrieval Commercial Airfare · About this organization
What you get
Free commercial airfare to collect a qualified service dog or complete required training with a dog trained for disability-related tasks.
How to start
Fill in and sign the service-dog travel form with itinerary, passenger, facility, income, and identification details. Upload the required proof at least 14 days before departure.
Good to know
- Baggage and airline add-on fees are not covered.
The details, as published
Miracle Flights provides free domestic commercial airfare for a child or adult traveling to retrieve a qualified service dog or complete required training with an ADA task-trained dog. It may cover the recipient and one qualifying companion, uses a separate live application and facility verification, and requires complete material at least 14 days before departure.
What help you may get
Travel And Transportation
Service-Dog Training and Retrieval Commercial Airfare — travel and transportation
Miracle Flights provides free domestic commercial airfare for a child or adult traveling to retrieve a qualified service dog or complete required training with an ADA task-trained dog. It may cover the recipient and one qualifying companion, uses a separate live application and facility verification, and requires complete material at least 14 days before departure.
Amount not published
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Conditionally relevant when a child with B-ALL independently qualifies for an ADA task-trained service dog and the travel/documentation rules.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
No residence restriction is published.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be connected to: Confirmed domestic qualified service-dog facility/trainer.
- Confirmed domestic qualified service-dog facility/trainer
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
Who can start: Patient, Parent Or Guardian
- Complete the eligibility screen and prepare itinerary, passenger, facility, income, and identity facts.
- Sign and submit the service-dog application and uploads at least 14 days before departure.
- Respond to clarification or facility-verification requests and retain the itinerary.
Ways to apply or ask
- Web Form · Open form or page
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Birth certificate or legal guardianship proof for a child service-dog patient
- Most recent federal Form 1040 pages and applicable income/self-employment documents
- Government-assistance recertification, redetermination, or renewal notice dated within 90 days when applicable
- Required identification or documentation for all passengers to clear TSA
- Miracle Flights reviews the request, verifies the event with the service-dog facility, coordinates flight options, and emails the booked itinerary.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 27, 2026 |
- Complete materials are due at least 14 days before departure.
- Submit at least 14 calendar days before departure.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Adult companion medical-necessity, frequency, return-only travel, and exact income threshold require confirmation.
- Baggage and airline add-on fees are not covered.
- Comfort or emotional-support-only animals do not qualify.
- What exact income threshold, adult-companion certification, frequency, and one-way-return rules apply?
- The form says the service-dog date will be verified with the facility, but no public facility-verification asset or actor sequence is published.
- A conditional single-use inside-timeframe code field is present, but public instructions do not explain when or from whom it is issued.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Service Dog Flight Request Application · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Service-Dog Training and Retrieval Commercial Airfare · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Service-Dog Training and Retrieval Commercial Airfare · checked Aug 27, 2026