Travel with 2 months left on passport

[brianb]

Looking forward to a few days away with the family on Sunday to Lanzarote booked last minute

Just been checking in online and realised my 11yr old daughters passport expires on the 29th May 24

Reading the guidelines on gov.uk it states 3 months on return and a fast track is one week due to being a child’s passport

Moving the dates is going to be difficult due to work holidays etc

Any bright ideas? Worth chancing it? Likelihood of it getting flagged?

I’m clutching at straws I know

[Rumdoodle]

Could be tricky. Last year, I tried checking in for a flight out of the UK with a passport that only had a couple of months left and it was a no go.

[ecsrobin]

brianb said:

Any bright ideas? Worth chancing it? Likelihood of it getting flagged?

I’m clutching at straws I know

Book her for a week with the grandparents?

Whilst I can’t help with this. It’s worth noting the dates of all your passports and setting a diary entry 6 months before to help with renewals in the future.

[James_P]

Had 10 weeks on my daughters passport left and we chanced it at standsted with Ryan Air and nothing was noticed, we had to print boarding passes online and it was fine. Was concerned when arriving in Italy but was let through without any questions. Learnt our lesson.

[Kuwahara]

You can get 1 day turnaround but it costs double I think and depends on the time of year..

I think that involves physically turning up obviously..

[ConnectionError]

Pay for a fast track passport

Or risk it,

But if you risk it and travel is refused would that cause a problem?

[brianb]

Unless I’m reading it wrong you can only get a fast track for an adult?

I’ve checked the eligibility on gov.uk and it only gives a 1 week turnaround which won’t work

[peter tdci]

It may not apply to your daughter, but check the issue date of your passports.

Since January 2021, to enter the EU Your passport now needs to have been issued less than 10 years before your departure date, and be valid for three months after the final day of your holiday.

If you renewed a UK passport before 2018, any unspent time on your old passport was added to the new one, so your passport expiry date could be more than 10 years after the issue date. For example, I renewed mine last in Feb 2018, but the time remaining on it meant that my new passport expires in Sept 2028, but the EU will say that it won't be valid after Feb 2028. I don't think that passports issued after late 2018 are affected because time was no longer carried over.

[akadk]

Lufthansa would not let me check in online for my flight due to this.
Had to do a last minute 600 mile round trip to Glasgow passport office ….

[brianb]

Issue date is 29/05/2019

Just checked in online with easyJet and it’s not flagged anything?

[ConnectionError]

brianb said:

Issue date is 29/05/2019

Just checked in online with easyJet and it’s not flagged anything?

There is an article on the BBC news today about passports etc. It mentions that you may be able to check in with the passport, but get refused travel on arrival.

[Every day a journey]

Is it worth the risk?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209

[fat80b]

brianb said:

Issue date is 29/05/2019

Just checked in online with easyJet and it’s not flagged anything?

My own related story :

Many years ago, I managed to wangle my way onto a work trip to Taiwan where others had the ordeal of giving big presentations to ~1000 people, and I was there for moral support and to answer a few technical questions... Happy days

We decided to make an event of it and went via Hong Kong - we spent the Sat night in HKG fully sampling the night life and got back to the hotel at 10am just in time to collect our bags and head to the airport for our blurry eyed onward connection to Taipei.

At check in in HKG, my presentation giving travelling colleage was informed that he now only had 179 days left on his passport and there was no way in hell Cathay were going to board him.

I waved goodbye at the airport, he contacted BA and returned to London.

He ended up with a "free" night out in Hong Kong, and I ended up with a 3 day hangover in Taipei having to give 3 hours a day of in depth technical presentations that I knew very little about.....

I guess the moral of the story is, Good luck!

[Speed 3]

Every day a journey said:

Is it worth the risk?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209

That story re-appears every year, surely everyone knows by now.

[Every day a journey]

Speed 3 said:

Every day a journey said:

Is it worth the risk?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209

That story re-appears every year, surely everyone knows by now.

SHOULD.

Sadly common sense is the least common of the senses