Student ID & aer lingus?

baby and crumble

Hey guys,

Anyone know if you can board a flight to the UK with either the TCD card or the student travelcard? Or would your student id be classed as a work id?

It says on the aer lingus website its 'an international student card' that they accept, but are those ISIC cards even available here anymore?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Zo

Kwekubo

ISIC cards are available, you should be able to get forms in the DUST office on the ground floor of no. 6.

ilovemybrick

Kwekubo wrote: »

ISIC cards are available, you should be able to get forms in the DUST office on the ground floor of no. 6.

Hasnt been the DUST office since DUST closed down close on three years ago.
The office doesn't always supply isic cards. Try but sometimes the forms just aren't there.

The USIT office on the quays does them as well.

However it usually is difficult to get on an Aer Lingus plane without a Passport.

baby and crumble

ok, thanks guys. better make sure to find my passport so, flying in the mornign!!!

gamma23

A trinity card wouldn't be accepted unless you get an incompent person at the airport, and a travelcard certainly wouldn't as random people get hold of them at freshers week. They want government photographic id, dunno about a garda age card though.

Mark200

gamma23 wrote: »

A trinity card wouldn't be accepted unless you get an incompent person at the airport, and a travelcard certainly wouldn't as random people get hold of them at freshers week. They want government photographic id, dunno about a garda age card though.

The Garda age card is only officially supposed to be used as proof of age, and not proof of identity as far as I know. Doesn't really make sense

emollett

I have used my trinity id in the past on an aer lingus flight to the uk, but that was a year or two ago. Drivers licences also work.

tolosenc

Why do you need ID going to the UK, again?

Online check-in and no bags will get you as far as the gate without needing ID, then in the UK a boarding card from a flight arriving from the British Isles is sufficient to gain entry. Surely the whole government ID is a bit out of proportion on their part, as long as you can prove the ticket belongs to you...

Though don't argue that with them. Just do as they say and save yourself the hassle.

Time Magazine

obl wrote: »

Why do you need ID going to the UK, again?

It's a common-travel area where you don't really need any ID to pass between the two jurisdictions, but airlines don't like strangers getting on planes.

Mark200

I think the UK brought in, or are bringing in, some new law where people coming from Ireland will have to have their passport. Including going to Northern Ireland.

http://www.visabureau.com/uk/news/16-01-2009/irish-uk-travellers-need-passport-checks.aspx

Jonathan

ilovemybrick wrote: »

Hasnt been the DUST office since DUST closed down close on three years ago.

I assume DUST is an acronym of Dublin University Student Travel, but what did they do/provide? Was it advice, information or was it actually selling student deals?

Jonathan

Jonathan wrote: »

I assume DUST is an acronym of Dublin University Student Travel, but what did they do/provide? Was it advice, information or was it actually selling student deals?

Yeah you could have bought trips through them.

jamesnp

I've always used my Trinity ID travelling on Aer Lingus to the UK, no problems what-so-ever... until you arrive back in Dublin and meet the rude and obnoxious Garda Immigration Bureau who must have a bee in their bonnet about Trinity. But even they're just trying to piss you off, they know the law and won't hold you up for more than a minute.

-jp