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    #2432
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Paul Tergat wrote: »
    Not sure if anyone will be able to help me with this

    My sister (shes 17) has never had a passport before and will need to travel from England to Ireland for a funeral very soon. This means she cant apply for an express passport and so will not have one for a potential flight over here. Any ideas of what she can do?

    Cheers

    Ferry or, if she has suitable photo ID, any airline other than Ryanair.


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    #2433
    Paul Tergat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,740 ✭✭✭✭Paul Tergat


    Kotek Besar wrote: »
    Ferry or, if she has suitable photo ID, any airline other than Ryanair.

    Is it just ryanair that insist on passports? the handiest option for us would be flybe which is leeds-bradford into knock...

    Its just I read this:

    http://www.flybe.com/charter/airport.htm

    but then this:

    http://www.flybe.com/flightInfo/id_requirements.htm

    Thanks for responding!


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    #2434
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Paul Tergat wrote: »
    Is it just ryanair that insist on passports?

    Yup. All other airlines operating between Britain and Ireland respect the Common Travel Area agreement. Only Ryanair doesn't.


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    #2435
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,854 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    others have said on the fourm that they got such typos fixed for free as they arent actually materially changing the person travelling.

    I myself got a similar yet even bigger mistake fixed for free over the phone with aerlingus, i.e. thanks to autofill on the browser I filled in my daughters name as my wifes name. But they corrected it no problem.

    Anyone an idea of what ryanairs policy is on it?
    I have a flight next month and didnt put my middle name on the booking.
    i.e. is middle name needed & if so how are they on changing it (i.e. how much "stupid tax" do they charge me for my ommission?)


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    #2436
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    others have said on the fourm that they got such typos fixed for free as they arent actually materially changing the person travelling.

    I myself got a similar yet even bigger mistake fixed for free over the phone with aerlingus, i.e. thanks to autofill on the browser I filled in my daughters name as my wifes name. But they corrected it no problem.

    Anyone an idea of what ryanairs policy is on it?
    I have a flight next month and didnt put my middle name on the booking.
    i.e. is middle name needed & if so how are they on changing it (i.e. how much "stupid tax" do they charge me for my ommission?)

    Middle name not needed, see reply above


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    #2437
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,854 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Middle name not needed, see reply above
    yup, but the original question was regarding an aer lingus flight to Munich (as no other airline flies from Ireland to Munich midweek)

    Ryanair are a different airline and notorious for being sticklers on everything being right and proper and thus my question.

    If Ryanair dont mind a boarding card missing my middle name then thats great news!


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    #2438
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    I've never put my middle name on any Ryanair booking, never had a problem.


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    #2439
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    yup, but the original question was regarding an aer lingus flight to Munich (as no other airline flies from Ireland to Munich midweek)

    Ryanair are a different airline and notorious for being sticklers on everything being right and proper and thus my question.

    If Ryanair dont mind a boarding card missing my middle name then thats great news!

    OP did not state which airline they were using, my answer applied to all airlines, none of them give a fiddlers about your middle name.

    A simple thanks would have sufficed.


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    #2440
    joebre
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭joebre


    My friend rang Aer Lingus today and they corrected the name immediately , at no extra cost.
    I don't believe that Ryanair would be as accommodating !


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    #2441
    roundymac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    Just reading through some of the posts, do people realise you don't have to wait for your passport to expire before you can renew it. My wife just renewed hers with 5 months left on it.


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    #2442
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    Just some information for the benefit of the group, I found this great.

    I handed in a passport renewal on monday of this week, at 3pm, into the passport office in Dublin. It was a straightforward renewal for my daughter with the old expired passport given in. It was checked in front of me, and i was told the turnaround time was 10 working days.

    It landed on my door mat in Tallaght on Friday morning.

    Four and a half days !


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    #2443
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I'm flying with Emirates next month from Dublin and booked my tickets online but stupidly left an extra letter in my name as "Joe Blogggs" with one extra letter in it. I realised the mistake the minute I got the email and rang Emirates straight away and they said not to worry and just took my passport details and added them to the booking so all was fine. I booked the flight very late and was tired and I am normally so careful I just became complacent in myself. I am not sure of Ryanair's policy but for one letter they can't be that hard on people, it happens to even cautious people like me.


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    #2444
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,394 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    joebre wrote: »
    My friend rang Aer Lingus today and they corrected the name immediately , at no extra cost.
    I don't believe that Ryanair would be as accommodating !

    i had a typo on a surname a while back and i rang up Ryanair to get it changed for free. no bother.


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    #2445
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,356 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    I go by my middle name, so never use my first name. Never had a problem with flights.


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    #2446
    Slugs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Slugs


    To follow up on Original post, Had no problems, it wasn't even brought up :D

    Thanks for the reassurance :)


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    #2447
    shadowcomplex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    Basically I had my passport in my pocket and a pen that leaked, the ink on the passport itself is ever so slight. Basically none of the individual inside pages have ink on them but when I have the passport closed you there a tiny bit of ink on the top corner of every page which looks worse when the entire passport is closed


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    #2448
    livinsane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    Perhaps buy one of those leather passport cases. All you can see of the passport when you open it is the photo page and opposite page. Would make it more presentable.


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    #2449
    shadowcomplex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    The best way of explaining what wrong is imagine a closed book and writing or drawing on the top corner of all the pages that are closed together, theres a tiny bit of ink on each page which looks like nothing when you separate them but when closed together its much more noticable


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    #2450
    Miaireland
    Registered Users Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    Take a couple of photos and email it to the passport office. They should be able to advise you.


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    #2451
    esharknz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭esharknz


    superscouse wrote: »
    Just some information for the benefit of the group, I found this great.

    I handed in a passport renewal on monday of this week, at 3pm, into the passport office in Dublin. It was a straightforward renewal for my daughter with the old expired passport given in. It was checked in front of me, and i was told the turnaround time was 10 working days.

    It landed on my door mat in Tallaght on Friday morning.

    Four and a half days !

    That's a great turnaround. I'm a first time applicant myself, and my application would have been received 2 weeks ago on Tuesday. It's been in the "being checked" status since Wednesday...Hopefully this means nothing is wrong???!!

    They have my other passport too as proof of ID, and already there has been a family medical emergency (all OK as can be now, thank god), but it scared the c**p out of me.


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    #2452
    livinsane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    esharknz wrote: »
    That's a great turnaround. I'm a first time applicant myself, and my application would have been received 2 weeks ago on Tuesday. It's been in the "being checked" status since Wednesday...Hopefully this means nothing is wrong???!!

    They have my other passport too as proof of ID, and already there has been a family medical emergency (all OK as can be now, thank god), but it scared the c**p out of me.

    There shouldn't be a problem if you have sent all of the required docs. See here:

    http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=84782


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    #2453
    livinsane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    shadowcomplex wrote: »
    The best way of explaining what wrong is imagine a closed book and writing or drawing on the top corner of all the pages that are closed together, theres a tiny bit of ink on each page which looks like nothing when you separate them but when closed together its much more noticable

    Like I said, the leather passport cover will conceal this (all the pages are inside the cover and when you open it, all you can see is the photo page and opposite one. You can get them in the Cork passport office anyway (they have a vending machine), and as far as I remember, Penny's used to do them at one stage.

    It doesn't sound like your passport is badly damaged at all but if you email the Passport Office, guaranteed they will tell you that they can't give a 100% answer as it depends on who you meet at passport control in the airport.


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    #2454
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,854 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    OP did not state which airline they were using, my answer applied to all airlines, none of them give a fiddlers about your middle name.

    A simple thanks would have sufficed.
    None is a big statement and its wrong.

    Europes Largest airline Lufthansa explicitly state you MUST enter your name in full.
    EDIT. so thats at least one airline that requires full names, and not an insignificant one either.
    How do I enter my name on the booking?
    Partly due to very strict entry requirements for the destination countries we fly to, the name you give when you make your online booking must always be exactly the same as the name on your identity card. If you have a middle name and this is recorded in your official identity document, you must therefore give this too.


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    #2455
    cichlid child
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭cichlid child


    Anybody that can help or know anybody that works in the passport office.
    If You can pm Please.
    We have booked a family holiday flying tomorrow.we are packed ready to go went to on-line check in and realised my 11 year old sons passport is out of date.Can we get an emergency passort same day as the flight?
    Anybody that can help I would really appreciate it.


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    #2456
    Barbara3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Barbara3


    you`d better ask official


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    #2457
    AGC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭AGC


    esharknz wrote: »
    That's a great turnaround. I'm a first time applicant myself, and my application would have been received 2 weeks ago on Tuesday. It's been in the "being checked" status since Wednesday...Hopefully this means nothing is wrong???!!

    They have my other passport too as proof of ID, and already there has been a family medical emergency (all OK as can be now, thank god), but it scared the c**p out of me.

    Presume your other passport is not an Irish one? You could have requested to get that one back no problem.

    1st time applicants will generally take slighthy longer than straight forward renewals


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    #2458
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=254

    Taken from there:
    DFA Website wrote:
    Priority Processing of Passport Applications.
    All non emergency applications submitted at the public counters will have a standard 15 working day turnaround. The timeline for processing passports with proof of immediate travel while not guaranteed is 3 working days other than where travel is necessitated by the death or illness of a family member. An additional fee may apply.

    I'd suggest you get all the documentation you need together, get the necessary signatures etc and get to the Passport Office ASAP and see what they can do for you. If they can accommodate you, you will probably have to pay a premium for it.


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    #2459
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    I have to renew my passport within the next few months.
    I was wondering is it possible to change the county of birth on my new passport?
    I stupidly put down the county that the hospital I was born was in, on my first passport, but your place of birth is meant to be where your mother was living at the time.


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    #2460
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    Pangea wrote: »
    I have to renew my passport within the next few months.
    I was wondering is it possible to change the county of birth on my new passport?
    I stupidly put down the county that the hospital I was born was in, on my first passport, but your place of birth is meant to be where your mother was living at the time.

    No your place of birth is just that, the place you were born and the county that is listed on your long form birth cert.


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    #2461
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    It is the location of where you were born. The census uses the mothers address.


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