Passport Expiry Date

paulacul · 04-03-2026 09:27PM #1

Hi

I am due to travel from Ireland to Finland from 10th to 15th March. I have realised my Irish passport is due to expire on the 4th April.

Will I still be able to fly with Ryanair ?

Thanks

gipi · 04-03-2026 09:52PM

Ryanair only care that your passport isn't out of date, so you'll be ok.

This website says that you don't need a specific validity of passport for Finland, just a current passport for the duration of your trip.

https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/overseas-travel/advice/finland/

Nigel Fairservice · 04-03-2026 09:53PM

Your passport just needs to be in date for travel to another EU country.

paulacul · 04-03-2026 10:31PM

Thanks so much x

Famous Seamus · 04-03-2026 10:53PM

Last year I discovered at the last minute that my passport expired on the night I was returning from summer holidays, I called the Department of Foreign Affairs who told me as I was travelling to Italy it wouldn't be an issue. I seem to remember some Ryanair ground staff in Pisa looking at my passport and chatting amongst themselves before waving me on. My flight home landed about 11.30pm, the guy at passport control joked that I had just made it by the skin of my teeth