Anyone have recent experience BA to UK without passport?

mobpd

Hi

Does anyone have recent experience of travelling on a BA flight to and from UK / Dublin with ID other than a passport? I have to submit passport for a travel VISA that is scheduled shortly after a trip to UK next week.
The BA website suggests driving licence would be OK but BA customer call centre contradicts this....
thanks
mobpd

Lapin

Yep, I flew BA from Dublin to London City Airport last month without a passport. No hassles at all.

sudzs

Flew BA Heathrow to Belfast a month or so ago with an Irish driving licence - no probs. I had asked BA on Twitter if a driving licence was ok but they gave me the wrong information. When I told them the website said it was ok, they conceded!

Sheldons Brain

sudzs wrote: »

Flew BA Heathrow to Belfast a month or so ago with an Irish driving licence - no probs. I had asked BA on Twitter if a driving licence was ok but they gave me the wrong information. When I told them the website said it was ok, they conceded!

This might not be conclusive for a flight from Dublin though, as the British have annexed the northern part of the island.

Lapin

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

This might not be conclusive for a flight from Dublin though, as the British have annexed the northern part of the island.

Yes it's a domestic flight from one part of the UK to another. Just like a flight from Manchester to London is. But it has no bearing whatsoever on flights from the Irish Republic which forms part of the common travel area with the UK and is recognised by BA. Therefore flights from anywhere on the island of Ireland are treated more or less the same as UK domestic flights.

So the OP has nothing to worry about. A drivers licence is fine as ID.

Other airlines require a passport as per their T&Cs as but not BA.

coylemj

mobpd wrote: »

The BA website suggests driving licence would be OK but BA customer call centre contradicts this....

Don't believe anything a person in a call centre tells you. The fact that they contradicted something you had already read on the BA website should tell you that people in call centres make stuff up all the time so that they don't have to resort to the sensible answer which is 'hang on a minute and I'll check'. They are programmed trained to give an answer without delay i.e. get rid of you and move on to the next call, that's how call centres work.

If in doubt, print the page from the website and bring it with you but it sounds like you're worrying needlessly - Ryanair is the only airline that demands a passport for IRL-UK travel.

AgileMyth

BA considers Dublin to London to be a domestic flight so it should be ok

Penalty

I flew Dublin to LCY return with a driving licence recently.
I often do this as i often mislay my passport.

I used the driving licence on Aer Lingus, Citijet and BA with no problems - ryanair is the exception