Timeline for UK citizen travel document to enter Ireland by air
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| Aug 1 at 14:27 | comment | added | Dean Meehan | @AndrewLeach +1 on the above. I could have been anyone. This was a mistake by the airline as per their rules, you do at least require some ID to board the plane even if it's inter-UK travel. | |
| Aug 1 at 11:01 | comment | added | Cosmittus | @AndrewLeach: I nearly raised the same question, because of the suggestion of a geographical misunderstanding. However, it does highlight another factor relating to ID: if you check in luggage, airlines are allowed to request a passport or other acceptable ID. Even if you are hand-baggage only, and mix with international pax in the departure lounge (as at many UK airports), you might be asked for ID at the gate to ensure you haven't swapped your boarding card with someone else - but I believe that's as much a concern about people dodging tax on Duty Free than security or border controls. | |
| Aug 1 at 5:48 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | @DeanMeehan If it's an internal flight within the United Kingdom, why would you need a passport? | |
| Jul 31 at 18:40 | comment | added | Traveller | ‘Passport Control’ is just terminology. It could just as easily be called ‘Border Control’ or ‘Immigration Control’. Particularly since at ‘Passport Control’ other documents that are not passports are routinely checked eg visas, BRPs etc. | |
| Jul 31 at 15:17 | comment | added | R.M. | @CMaster I wonder if this is one of those technicality things, where they physically direct you though the gate labeled "Passport Control" but if you show up as a British/Irish citizen, suddenly it legally ceases to be an official passport control gate and becomes a "confirm you're a British/Irish citizen and welcome you to Ireland" gate instead. | |
| Jul 31 at 2:51 | comment | added | Dean Meehan | Flying into Dublin, you will require UK identification such as a UK Driving License, UK Passport, etc. but each airline is different. For example Ryanair requires a Passport and will not allow you to board without it. On a side-note: I recently flew from London Luton to Belfast Intl. and was able to board the flight without showing ID and exit the airport without passport control. (Although I beleive this was a mistake by them while boarding by the airline) That airline didn't require a Passport for travel to Belfast even though it's on the Island of Ireland. | |
| Jul 30 at 17:17 | vote | accept | Cosmic Ossifrage | ||
| Jul 30 at 15:47 | comment | added | jcaron | @CMaster as far as I know (but I haven’t been in DUB in a very long while), all passengers are actually routed through passport control, including those arriving on domestic flights and flights from the CTA. Hence my advice in my answer to keep the boarding pass to show you are arriving from the CTA if you don’t have one of the more common forms of ID (passport or national ID card). | |
| Jul 30 at 15:41 | comment | added | CMaster | That's also not really true. Both times I've flown in to Dublin from the UK, I've had to pass Irish passport control. It may be you don't actually need a passport to satisfy them, but they do routinley send you to passport control. | |
| Jul 30 at 15:16 | history | answered | Traveller | CC BY-SA 4.0 |