Ryanair photo id question??

netwhizkid

I am flying to London this week. They are very strict on Photo-Id they even threw off John O'Donoghue TD when he forgot his ID. I have valid Provisional License, I wonder would this suffice.

This is what it says on their website:

A valid European Economic Area (EEA) driving licence with photo, presented by a passenger whose place of birth is within the EEA is acceptable only for travel on internal flights within the UK, internal flights within Italy and UK-Republic of Ireland-UK.

Any ideas?? I might yet fly Easyjet from Cork, what sort of restrictions have they in place? But it is still looking like Farranfore to Standsted on Ryanair though.

BuffyBot

easyJet's regulations are here

http://www.easyjet.com/en/Book/regulations.html#checkin

damien

They used to accept drivers licences but now I notice on the self-service check-in it has to be passports. It's prob easier for you if you used a passport if going to the UK too. Stansted especially.

DublinWriter

Don't even think of flying Ryanair unless you have a current passport.

netwhizkid

DublinWriter wrote:

Don't even think of flying Ryanair unless you have a current passport.

Well the thing is I have a passport but it expired last September 2005. I will give them a ring tommorow and see what they say. Thanks for all the help and advice anyway people.

DublinWriter

netwhizkid wrote:

Well the thing is I have a passport but it expired last September 2005. I will give them a ring tommorow and see what they say. Thanks for all the help and advice anyway people.

Last year, my gf flew to the UK from Dublin on Ryanair via an expired passport (she, nor the Dublin Ryanair checkin staff noticed it).

Flying back, the uber-efficient UK Ryanair staff noticed it and wouldn't let her fly home.

After I said that she flew out on it from Dublin, they conceeded. Apparently if they let you fly out on an expired passport, then they have to let you fly back too.

Just a point to bear in mind.

But you really should get your backside down to Molesworth St. for a new passport tomorrow. I think they can issue you with an emergency/priority one, but it costs more (obviously!).

damien

Your nearest passport office would be Cork I think.

Victor

netwhizkid wrote:

I have valid Provisional License, I wonder would this suffice.

This is what it says on their website:

A valid driving licence with photo, presented by a passenger whose place of birth is within the EEA is acceptable only for travel .... UK-Republic of Ireland-UK.

I presume you were born in the EEA? (EU25 + Norway, Iceland and Switzerland).

What ID do they need for Cork-Dublin flights?

DublinWriter

Victor wrote:

What ID do they need for Cork-Dublin flights?

They still need a passport for domestic flights. Marianne Fuincane bleeted on at length recently on her show about Ryanair not letting her fly from Cork to Dublin without a Passport.

Crash

I would assume thats valid FULL driving license Victor...

Tar.Aldarion

You can get a passport in a day if you go and get it in Dublin.

Victor

&#231 wrote: »

I would assume thats valid FULL driving license Victor...

What do passengers now have to driver the bus out to the plane? :rolleyes: @ Ryanair

DublinWriter

Victor wrote:

What do passengers now have to driver the bus out to the plane? :rolleyes: @ Ryanair

I flew back to Dublin this evening from Birmingham to Dublin via Ryanair.

Firstly, the Captain came over the P.A., and I'm not being racist but (classic opening!) he had a very 'slurred' Eastern European accent. It was amusing to watch the exchange of glances of passengers as they nervously grinned about what the guy was saying.

First he said we'd be crusing at 25,000 feet. Then as the second busload of passengers embarked, he anounced we'd be cruising at 45,000 feet.

The chief steward was equally eastern-European and equally intelligable, but the passengers giggled when we landed at Dublin airport that he announced that we were "welcome to John Lennon airport and that smoking was only allowed within the clearly designated areas within the building" (no, it wasn't a recording).

Stark

&#231 wrote: »

I would assume thats valid FULL driving license Victor...

A provisional licence is fine, I've travelled on it plenty of times.

You just need someone with a full licence to accompany you on the plane.

* Insert "fucking learner drivers, shouldn't be allowed on the planes" here*

Victor wrote:

What ID do they need for Cork-Dublin flights?

Driver's licence/passport if you're checking in at the desk, passport if you're using self-service checkin.

netwhizkid

Stark wrote:

* Insert "fucking learner drivers, shouldn't be allowed on the planes" here*[/size]

Yes I agree they won't know how to drive the planes right. I once hit a pothole on the way from Lanzarote. lol!

Thanks for all the info, fellas. I will take along my provisional license and my expired passport but won't show it unless asked. I also have a Gardai National Age Card (for getting served beer, even though I don't drink, I still thought it would be neat to get it and it works even in the USA)

My father is travelling with me and he has two driving licenses Irish and An International one. Plus his passport, he can voucher for who am if questions are asked. Also as I am sailing home (going buying a car being my mission while there, Have you got the Gadgets ready Q?) So I assume that Sailings isn't as strict, and if it is I can hide out in the boot of the car with food and water. I seem to be cursed last year when I flew to the USA my passport was expiring within 90 days and I was Shi*ing myself that homeland security would nay say me but I got the all clear after some very nosey questions regarding who bought my ticket and my employment. The fact I complied with their regulations before I think is always a big bonus. Be nice to the yanks and they will return the compliment.

Thanks again fellas.

dermot_sheehan

netwhizkid wrote:

Yes I agree they won't know how to drive the planes right. I once hit a pothole on the way from Lanzarote. lol!

Thanks for all the info, fellas. I will take along my provisional license and my expired passport but won't show it unless asked. I also have a Gardai National Age Card (for getting served beer, even though I don't drink, I still thought it would be neat to get it and it works even in the USA)

My father is travelling with me and he has two driving licenses Irish and An International one. Plus his passport, he can voucher for who am if questions are asked. Also as I am sailing home (going buying a car being my mission while there, Have you got the Gadgets ready Q?) So I assume that Sailings isn't as strict, and if it is I can hide out in the boot of the car with food and water. I seem to be cursed last year when I flew to the USA my passport was expiring within 90 days and I was Shi*ing myself that homeland security would nay say me but I got the all clear after some very nosey questions regarding who bought my ticket and my employment. The fact I complied with their regulations before I think is always a big bonus. Be nice to the yanks and they will return the compliment.

Thanks again fellas.

It's probably too late to warn you, but I think that's playing it risky, and I think we might be seeing a "Ryanair are *****, they didn't let me board" thread soon enough.

Ryanair are notoriously picky about their booking conditions, everyone they deny boarding is extra revenue to them. They have argued in the past that an expired passport was not a passport (this was before they put language on their booking site expressly stating that passports must be in date), so I could perfectly imagine them saying a provisional driving licence, is not a licence.

Garda Age card or your father vouching for you frankly means squat. They have in the past refused to take a police warrant card and a UK armed forces ID card as ID for domestic flights (this made the papers in the UK), I think they'd laugh if you tried a national age card.


On the other hand you might be lucky. I've flown back and forth between the UK and Ireland several times in the past year, and a couple of times my ID wasn't checked at all. On other occasions I've used my full irish licence which indicates I was born outside the EEA (had my passport with me but buried in carryon baggage). Because there's no immigration control and no carrier fines for undocumented immigrants, the airlines don't really care, the ID requirement seems to be only a revenue protection mechanism.

Also with regard to your american trip, Ireland and the US have an agreement that automatically extends expiring passports by six months if a national form either country is in the other.

Stark

gabhain7 wrote:

so I could perfectly imagine them saying a provisional driving licence, is not a licence.

Well my provisional has worked fine any time I flew with them. I'd be very interested to know if anyone has had a negative experience in this regard.

Victor

Under the new Road Traffic Act, provisional licences will be replaced with learner permits.

netwhizkid

Update

Flew out from Farranfore (Kerry Airport) to Stansted last Wednesday week June 7th to London Stansted with Ryanair. I was asked for photo ID, and I gave my Provisional License and they accepted it fine without any qualms. I was travelling with my Father, and he produced a full Irish drivers licence and that was also accepted. I only took a one way flight as we bought a car in London and drove it up the motorway to Swansea before sailing into Cork and home.

My expired passport didn't worry a Policeman that checked us out as we drove onto the ferry as we got quizzed up because of the new car, he asked us for it and we gave our two passports (mine being expired :eek: ) Everything worked fine and went off okay, and the policeman in Swansea or the Gardai in Cork which also asked for our passports said nothing either.

Thanks for all the advice and help.