Child’s passport only has 2 months on it. Flying to Spain on Saturday!

Like the expiration date of your driving licence, and your MOT due date etc; knowing when your passport runs out is basic life admin.

Also, Brexit has made no difference to a single soul in know in real life when it comes to travelling abroad. It's very poor form to blame Brexit when it's just poorly managed life-admin.

@milveycrohn both your points are wrong. The extra months added only affect 10 year passports as no passport can be valid for 10 years. As a child's passport is valid for under 10 years their extra months can be counted.

You also used to be able to travel up to your expiry date in Europe and now you need 3 months remaining (not 6 months)

There are actually TWO changes that have been made to passports in recent years.
The first is that passports are now only valid for 10 years (adults), and 5 years (children).
In the past, when you renewed a passport, the weeks left on the old passport were added on to the new one. This no longer happens, and in fact some people with older passprts have been caught out, as they found the 10 years were counted from the date of issue, and this was earlier than the expiry date.
The second change is due to Brexit. Previously we were advised to have 3 months left on our passports. Now it is 6 months.
(Technically this means that passports are really valid only for 9 years and 6 months).
So if you or your children's passports expire before then, then you will need to get a new passport.
In some cases you can get them within 24 hours (check the website for renewals), or an urgent one in one week.

@HaveringWavering What a fascinating specialty!

Exactly the same situation with my husband’s passport on Monday.

He was turned away at the airport, but they did offer to move his flight in case he could get a passport quickly.

@JuergenSchwarzwald, sorry but it’s been very well publicised. Also, everyone knows that Brexit has disadvantaged us and the ease of travel. It’s everyone’s responsibility to check entry requirements before booking a holiday.

[quote Foolsrule]@refusetobeasheep - don’t be ridiculous. Of course that didn’t happen. A pilot simply doesn’t have that power

Having done a stint working at Heathrow, it never ceased to amaze me how many people were - quite simply - a bit hard of thinking. So many would turn up with out of date passports, or spectacularly late as the M25 was busy (when is it quiet?). It was NEVER their fault. Except it was and the (inevitable) end result was that they missed their flights. I lost sympathy after about week three. The same old arguments and reasons and excuses EVERY SINGLE TIME. But never, ever, ever their fault. Idiots, the lot of them.[/quote]
100% this.

^

Always someone else's fault, or someTHING else's fault.

They’ll be denied. Good luck with that attitude

You are rude.
What on earth do you think will happen?someone will tell You how to try to board illegally?
You have ruined the holiday,nobody on here has so stop with the nasty attitude.

@Nocutenamesleft we advise airlines and their insurers what to do when they have complaints, accidents and incidents, keep them up to date with regulations, help them buy, sell and lease aircraft, negotiate commercial agreements between different companies eg manufacturers, ground handling companies, repairers, we also advise owners and operators of business jets, helicopters, gliders, balloons, satellites on all that stuff. Pretty varied and interesting really, and also has its own special international legal regime.

The changes to passport rules for UK citizens visiting ‘The EU’ *has changed due to Brexit. Typically posters can’t/ won’t acknowledge this fact. I’m pretty sure UK had a say in writing those very rules. I don’t live in the UK and even I know it.
Anyways for those who didn’t read the memo
www.gherson.com/blog/check-british-passport-before-travelling-to-eu

• except poor old us living in Ireland due to the Common Travel Area law which predated ‘The EU’ FoM laws.

Op it's not a case of being turned away at Spain. They won't let you board at all. I hope you manage to get it sorted in time.

It's going back a few years but I managed to get a passport over the counter in Liverpool for DD. I had to make an appointment but once I'd presented the forms and photos, they said come back in 3 hours!

I know the woman in question. To make up for lost time, the airline dragged a Concorde out of a hangar, and boarded all passengers on it.
Free champagne brunch was served, and the cabin crew handed out 400 lambert and butler cigarettes and 1 litre of Malibu duty free to all passengers as they arrived at their destination an hour before they were due to depart.

Brilliant @Whammyyammy! Am loving this and others’ eg @SarahAndQuack’s. increasingly shaggy dog tales

Unfortunately you will be refused boarding. Am I the only one who has everyone’s passport expiry date written down and refer to it before I ever book flights anywhere? I’m always amazed at how often people find themselves caught with these things.
OP, you are where you are and I hope you get sorted.

I was in exactly this same situation end of last year. Your only option is to reschedule your holiday sorry.

Just wondering if all these short notice passports success stories were pre covid times?

[quote Silverswirl]@daimbarsatemydogsbone
As others have said you are wrong.
Before Brexit you could travel to Spain and back right up until the expiry date on your passport!
Now you need 3 months left.
It’s changed since Brexit. Not sure why you arnt getting that!
So yes, bloody Brexit is accurate.[/quote]
Please quote where I denied that?
It’s absolutely fuck all to do with Brexit because op has admitted to not even knowing or checking the expiry date. So that is nothing to do with Brexit - not sure why you aren’t “getting” that.

If you are making the ridiculously narrow point that but for the Brexit requirements, in this case the failure of op to bother to check passport expiry dates wouldn’t have been an issue, you are really really clutching at straws for reasons to blame Brexit for someone’s failure to bother checking passport dates.

Another Brexit win we keep hearing about..... along with pet passports

all i can suggest is you try an emergency application, £122 for a child and see if you can in under the week

You wont be able to board OP. If they dont stop you at check in, you'll be stopped boarding.