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travelling to Spain - passport validity - 6 months?

  • 20-04-2017 4:32pm
    #1
    holly8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭


    Hi - travelling to Spain next week (RA), returning on the 27th ....passport expires 14 Oct 2017 ... is there a 6-month validity requirement travelling on Ryanair to Spain? or am I imagining that I read this somewhere?

    Have googled and all I can find is that it will be ok once passport is still in date ... does anyone here have any knowledge of this? TIA


Comments

  • #2
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Nah, you'll be fine.

    Enjoy the trip and don't leave off renewing your passport for too long when you get back!!


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    That rule about 3 or 6 months remaining on your passport typically applies in the case of travel to the Gulf and a lot of Asian countries but definitely not in the EU or the US. Ryanair only care if the passport is valid on the day you travel.


  • #4
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    coylemj wrote: »
    That rule about 3 or 6 months remaining on your passport typically applies in the case of travel to the Gulf and a lot of Asian countries but definitely not in the EU or the US. Ryanair only care if the passport is valid on the day you travel.

    Even then they won't really care. I was flying home from Copenhagen on a passport with only a few weeks left on it and asked the gate agent about the rules and he said legally it's any eu government issued ID within the eu and honestly even if it was expired we'd just tell you off and let you fly anyway.


  • #5
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    No it's not, several countries demand that your passport have several months validity remaining before they will admit you.
    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    That is true in the case of a returning Irish passport holder but the OP's question related to outbound travel from Ireland.


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  • #7
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Even then they won't really care. I was flying home from Copenhagen on a passport with only a few weeks left on it and asked the gate agent about the rules and he said legally it's any eu government issued ID within the eu and honestly even if it was expired we'd just tell you off and let you fly anyway.

    That is total BS. Your 'gate agent' was probably an employee of a ground handling agent and didn't know what he/she was talking about. Just because someone is wearing a hi-viz jacket doesn't mean they are an expert on immigration regulations.

    Ireland is not a signatory to the Schengen agreement which means that in order to fly to anywhere outside Ireland the UK, you need a valid and current passport. I was flying to Paris on business for a day trip with a colleague a few years ago, the Aer Lingus lady on the check-in desk told my colleague that his passport had expired and he couldn't travel.

    She said that if he was stopped at CDG and refused entry, Aer Lingus would be fined for allowing him to travel and she would get her ass kicked for giving him a boarding card.


  • #8
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    A friend booked a family holiday to Egypt, show the children the pyramids etc.
    Didn't realise their passports needed to be valid for a number of months after their return flight date. (3 months, I think)
    Were not allowed board in Dublin, despite passports having two months until expiry.
    Very cost!y mistake, because travel insurance would not cover his mistake. 3000 euro down the drain.


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