Ryanair and Passport going to London

Mr Moon

Does anyone know what the rules are about having a passport to travel to London from Dublin with Ryanair? A friend of mine can't find his and is travelling this weekend!

He's wondering if you can just use a drivers licence!
Which is what I thought but some people have been coming back saying that you have to have a passport!

Any info would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Spocker

From here: -> http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=pid&quest=photoid

Ryanair wrote:

For British and Irish citizens who are travelling on flights to/from the United Kingdom to/from the Republic of Ireland (Common Travel Area), a valid driving licence with photo is acceptable photo ID.

Mr Moon

Thanks, this is what I was looking for!

Spocker

No problemo

lynchie

Spocker wrote: »

From here: -> http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=pid&quest=photoid

PROVIDING that you are NOT checking in online. Only passport is accepted by Ryanair for online checkin.

Latchy

My passport was out of date by a few weeks when visiting dublin last week .Lucky enough i had other suitable identification on me .

robinph

No passports needed for travel between UK - Ireland for citizens of either county, except for when using the online checkin options. Full driving license will do for the photo id requirement if checking in at the airport, provisional license is not good enough though as they are not recognised between the two countries.

lynchie

robinph wrote: »

No passports needed for travel between UK - Ireland for citizens of either county, except for when using the online checkin options. Full driving license will do for the photo id requirement if checking in at the airport, provisional license is not good enough though as they are not recognised between the two countries.

You can use a provisional license, I have friends who use them all the time. In fact with aerlingus, you can even travel with a bus id / work id etc..

Latchy

Thats what i had with me and produced , a provisional license with photo and address , no problems .

robinph

They may well be letting you through with provisional licenses, bus passes or some other random card with a picture on, but they don't have to accept those as valid forms of ID if they don't want to. Your just being lucky that your not getting them on a day when they are feeling akward at the checkin desk.

Ryanair photo id

A provisional license is not recognised as a driving license as far as the forms of id mentioned in that page either.

Latchy

robinph wrote: »

Your just being lucky that your not getting them on a day when they are feeling akward at the checkin desk.
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Through they can be grumpy at the check inn's . I had more problems going through the search with remove you shoes ,jacket ,pockets belt etc .Twice i had to go through and on top of that forgot to take me belt with me .

Sombody working in scurity at dublin airport has my waist belt

lynchie

robinph wrote: »

They may well be letting you through with provisional licenses, bus passes or some other random card with a picture on, but they don't have to accept those as valid forms of ID if they don't want to. Your just being lucky that your not getting them on a day when they are feeling akward at the checkin desk.

Ryanair photo id

A provisional license is not recognised as a driving license as far as the forms of id mentioned in that page either.

Ryanair definitely wont allow any other forms of ID, but as per aerlingus' terms and conditions they will allow most forms photo ID on domestic / UK / Ireland flights no problem.

Dodge

robinph wrote: »

No passports needed for travel between UK - Ireland for citizens of either county, except for when using the online checkin options. Full driving license will do for the photo id requirement if checking in at the airport, provisional license is not good enough though as they are not recognised between the two countries.

Depending on the airline. BMI require a passport, regardless of check in facility used

robinph

There is actually no requirement for any form of ID for British or Irish citizens to travel between the two countries as far as actual border control is concerned. However, having some way of proving that you are a citizen on arrival is usually a good idea to speed things along. The reason for different airlines having different ID requirements though, that are more strict than what the police on the border are bothered about, is becasue they will get fined for anybody that they transport that then turns out to be refused at the point of entry so they are just covering themselves to different degrees.

It is really simple though - if you have a passport then take it, if you don't have a passport then get one.

Ronnie19

Passport is the only ID Ryanair will accept confirmed this with them on the phone on Monday even to travel to uk

Unshelved

Legally you don't need a passport to travel to the UK from Ireland. However, if you are traveling with Ryanair you WILL need a passport, or a National Identity card from the countries listed below (none of which include Ireland or the UK). A driving license won't be sufficient I'm afraid.

From the Ryanair website -

THE ONLY FORMS OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ACCEPTED ON RYANAIR FLIGHTS ARE:

A valid passport
A valid National Identity Card issued by the government of a European Economic Area (EEA) country. (Only the following EEA countries currentlyissue National Identity Cards acceptable for carriage on Ryanair flights: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France*, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden (not accepted on non Schengen flights), Switzerland. *The validity of French National ID cards (issued for adults) has been extended from 10 years to 15 years ONLY for cards issued between 2nd January 2004 and 31st December 2013.
A valid German Government issued ‘Kinderausweis’ travel document
A valid Greek National Police identity card
A valid Spanish Family Book (for use by children under 14 years travelling with their parents/legal guardians on Spanish domestic flights only)
A valid Italian ‘Certificato Di Nascita’ with photo (for use by children under 16 years) which has been endorsed as ‘VALIDO PER L'ESPATRIO’ for travel on international flights, no endorsement is required when travelling on Italian domestic flights.. It is the passenger's personal responsibility to ensure that this document meets the requirements of immigration and other governmental authorities at the destination airport.
A valid Italian AT/BT card (for Italian domestic flights only).
A valid UN Refugee Convention Travel Document – (issued in accordance with Article 28(1) of the 1951 UN Convention, by a Government in place of a valid passport.)
A valid Convention Travel Document – (issued in accordance with Article 27 of the 1954 UN Convention for Stateless Persons, by a contracting state in place of a valid passport)
A valid Collective Passport issued by an EU/EEA country


Ryanair does NOT accept driver licences, residence cards, seaman books, a police report (issued in the event of travel document loss/theft), military ID cards etc. Expired or damaged forms of photo-id will not be accepted on any flight.

http://www.ryanair.com/ie/terms-and-conditions/regulations-traveldocumentation/

coylemj

This thread is six years old and we're going over ground that has been well and truly trampled to dust at this stage.

Boards already has checks to stop first time posters from posting URLs, they should also be prevented from dragging up old threads.

kerry4sam

Thread closed by me.

A more recent thread on topic/subject can be found right here.

Thanks,
kerry4sam