Travel To Ireland - Do You Need A Passport?

kitekat

catokelly wrote: »

Your Mother may never have needed a Passport for flying within the UK, but alas she was flying to Ireland which is not the UK.

Your 'gripe' with Ryanair is that when you typed your mums id card serial number into their form asking for 'passport serial number' that it didnt flag up that the number was invalid - how was ryanair supposed to know that you had entered a number from a completely different document!! iI is up to you to ensure you read the website properly and enter the correct information. They merely ask for the passport serial number so that when you present your boarding pass they will check your actual passport aganst the number on your pass, it is not an online passport serial number checker!

When you go through the booking process, the website does does make it very clear that you need a Passport. Its very easy for you to come up with the 'ruin air' thing and your sob story, however you are just cherry picking the bits that you want to make public, it is not their fault that you didnt read the website info properly.

You also get an automated reminder email before your flight just in case you forget:
IMPORTANT TRAVEL INFORMATION PLEASE READ
RYANAIR TRAVEL DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS:
All passengers must present their online boarding pass and valid accepted travel document at the airport in order to travel.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=pid

The link above then takes you to:

In order to ensure compliance, passengers should carry a valid passport (and visa if applicable) or EU/EEA government issued national identification card on all journeys. Any fines, penalties, payments or expenditures incurred as a result of breach of these requirements shall be paid by or charged to you.
Ryanair does NOT accept driver licences, residence cards, family books, seaman books, a police report (issued in the event of travel document loss/theft), military ID cards etc. Expired or damaged forms of photo-id will not be accepted on any flight.
Details of all passengers’ travel documents (including those of children and infants) must be entered during the online check-in process. All passengers must present their valid travel document along with their online boarding pass at airport security and at the boarding gate for all flights.
THE ONLY FORMS OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ACCEPTED ON RYANAIR FLIGHTS ARE:

• A valid passport – (see below - */and ** below)
• A valid National Identity Card issued by the government of a European Economic Area (EEA) country. (Only the following EEA countries currentlyissue National Identity Cards acceptable for carriage on Ryanair flights: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland)

I have read all the above but was told by a lawyer that it is not a legal requirement to have a passport when traveling on a domestic flight

kitekat

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

catokelly wrote: »

Your Mother may never have needed a Passport for flying within the UK, but alas she was flying to Ireland which is not the UK./QUOTE]

The UK and the Irish Republic have a free travel area. Brits don't need a passport to enter Ireland and vice versa.

If Brits dont need a passport to travel to Ireland/Northern Ireland how can RUINAIR get off with insisting on a passport.

kitekat

catokelly wrote: »

Your Mother may never have needed a Passport for flying within the UK, but alas she was flying to Ireland which is not the UK.

Your 'gripe' with Ryanair is that when you typed your mums id card serial number into their form asking for 'passport serial number' that it didnt flag up that the number was invalid - how was ryanair supposed to know that you had entered a number from a completely different document!! iI is up to you to ensure you read the website properly and enter the correct information. They merely ask for the passport serial number so that when you present your boarding pass they will check your actual passport aganst the number on your pass, it is not an online passport serial number checker!

When you go through the booking process, the website does does make it very clear that you need a Passport. Its very easy for you to come up with the 'ruin air' thing and your sob story, however you are just cherry picking the bits that you want to make public, it is not their fault that you didnt read the website info properly.

You also get an automated reminder email before your flight just in case you forget:
IMPORTANT TRAVEL INFORMATION PLEASE READ
RYANAIR TRAVEL DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS:
All passengers must present their online boarding pass and valid accepted travel document at the airport in order to travel.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=pid

The link above then takes you to:

In order to ensure compliance, passengers should carry a valid passport (and visa if applicable) or EU/EEA government issued national identification card on all journeys. Any fines, penalties, payments or expenditures incurred as a result of breach of these requirements shall be paid by or charged to you.
Ryanair does NOT accept driver licences, residence cards, family books, seaman books, a police report (issued in the event of travel document loss/theft), military ID cards etc. Expired or damaged forms of photo-id will not be accepted on any flight.
Details of all passengers’ travel documents (including those of children and infants) must be entered during the online check-in process. All passengers must present their valid travel document along with their online boarding pass at airport security and at the boarding gate for all flights.
THE ONLY FORMS OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ACCEPTED ON RYANAIR FLIGHTS ARE:

• A valid passport – (see below - */and ** below)
• A valid National Identity Card issued by the government of a European Economic Area (EEA) country. (Only the following EEA countries currentlyissue National Identity Cards acceptable for carriage on Ryanair flights: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland)

Hope you do not work in an old folks care home,you have the same couldnt care less attitude that RUINAIR have.

catokelly

Well at the end of the day it's a Ryanair rule, so you can keep protesting all you like, but... it is quite clear and you do get email reminders about before your flight. You may have spoken to a solicitor or whatever, but as you go through the Ryanair booking process, it does make it quite clear about the accepted forms of id.

Whether I work in an old folks home or not is quite irrelevant! Stop huffing and puffing over it, it's your mistake for not reading the website properly as you were booking.

lexilondon21

Steve_xx wrote: »

Yes you're right in that UK citizens may not need a passport to enter Eire, but you will find that to get on a Ryanair plane in the UK that is bound for Eire that you will need a valid passport.

You need one to fly, but not on the boat, for the boat just photographic I.d.

kitekat

catokelly wrote: »

Well at the end of the day it's a Ryanair rule, so you can keep protesting all you like, but... it is quite clear and you do get email reminders about before your flight. You may have spoken to a solicitor or whatever, but as you go through the Ryanair booking process, it does make it quite clear about the accepted forms of id.

Whether I work in an old folks home or not is quite irrelevant! Stop huffing and puffing over it, it's your mistake for not reading the website properly as you were booking.

I am not disputing i did not read the t and cs,but i am disputing how when it is not a legal requirement to have a passport that RUINAIR can enforce something that is not legal.I note you skipped over that fact,looks like your are the one cherry picking now.Btw i will huff and puff all i like no one is asking you to read or listen so you go take your hard hearted brick and swing it in someone elses direction.:(

Bob_the_Saver

kitekat wrote: »

catokelly wrote: »

Meant to say we were flying to Derry(part of the U.K.)

Oh, you mean Londonderry - you'll still need a passport with Ryanair
though, their planes - their rules.

Bob_the_Saver

kitekat wrote: »

I am not disputing i did not read the t and cs,but i am disputing how when it is not a legal requirement to have a passport that RUINAIR can enforce something that is not legal.I note you skipped over that fact,looks like your are the one cherry picking now.Btw i will huff and puff all i like no one is asking you to read or listen so you go take your hard hearted brick and swing it in someone elses direction.:(

You need the passport for the flight not entry on arrival. Their planes their rules, like in my vehicle, you smoke -you walk.

catokelly

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

kitekat wrote: »

Oh, you mean Londonderry - you'll still need a passport with Ryanair
though, their planes - their rules.

No i meant Derry actually.

Voyager2002

This thread started FIVE YEARS ago!

Anyway, the cheaper Ryanair flights get, the more people want to bash them.