Requirements to ship Human Cremains on Southwest Airlines
- Book human remains are required in advance by Southwest Airlines. Contacting our Cargo Customer Care Center. We recommend that Customers book at least 24 hours prior to departure.
- Advance arrangements are required.
- Shipper must comply with all local, state, federal, and international regulations.
- Human remains, other than cremated remains, must be adequately secured in a casket, approved metal container, or combination unit to prevent shifting and escape of offensive odors. If the remains are in a casket, the casket must be enclosed in an outside shipping container of wood, canvas, plastic, or paper-board construction which has at least six (6) handles and sufficient rigidity and padding to protect the casket from damage with ordinary care in handling.
- All human remains containers, other than a combination unit, must be placed in an approved outside container that will adequately protect the contents from damage with ordinary care and handling.
- All shipping containers must be new and cannot be reused.
- All human remains shipments must appropriately display the label "head" on the outer shipping container to assist handlers in aircraft loading and unloading operations.
- Appropriate documentation must accompany all human remains. This includes either a signed certificate of death, burial permit, report of death, and/or burial transit removal permit as mandated by local, state, and government regulations.
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