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

it would be complete luck.

you could go to a passport office and try to get a last minute appointment. you might be lucky and get a cancelation.

or you can try your luck with changing the booking and swapping to a later flight.

or you could try your luck with trying to go with the passport as it is.

whatever you do luck isn't really on your side.

I've been in this situation, last year, first work trip since covid, got through security, and only when boarding the plane did someone realise my colleagues passport expired in just over a month, she was refused boarding.

It was a few years ago now but similar happened to another colleague, but he got out of the uk fine, it was only when we were flying home it was flagged, fortunately they let him board anyway, but he was told he could be refused boarding.

I also know someone who last year realised a few days before leaving for their holiday that their youngest passport expired in 2020, there was no way they could get a new one so decided to just try it, they strategically held the passport to hide it, and kept it in the middle of the stack of 6 passports,
I tried to talk them out of it, it seemed so stupid, but they had borrowed the money for the holiday and couldn't afford to loose it, so they did it.

They got through Manchester airport fine, I was gobsmacked when they texted me from the plane, they got into Lanzarote fine too.
The problems came when they were due to come home, I'm not sure where it happened but someone spotted the date, they pretended they had no idea and that it was a complete mistake, they spent 9 hours in a little room, being questioned about it, they missed their flight and had to wait to see if they would be allowed to fly home, in the end they were allowed and were booked onto a later flight, but they had to pay for the rebooking I think.
They treated the whole thing as a win, but they didn't seem to consider that had they been refused they would have had to have traveled to the British consulate to apply for a temporary 'return home' passport, which trust me is a bloody nightmare, I've had to do it when my passport was stolen and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Really I think it was incredibly stupid to even try.
You will probably just be refused at the airport though.

Just say your son identifies as the Queen, she doesn't need a passport.

Where did you go? The Isle of Wight?

I was trying to do as the OP suggested and provide an anecdotal account of everything being fine. OP was complaining people were being "unhelpful" by pointing out the obvious.
I may not have been entirely serious.
I probably appear unsympathetic to OP's plight - that is because I am.

If we were still in the EU we wouldn't have to worry about this.

As long as passport was valid you could prove you were an EU citizen and go anywhere unchallenged.

Shoddy airlines would make up their own rules and sometimes refuse boarding but fundamentally if you are an EU citizen nobody could refuse you anywhere as long as your passport was valid on that day. There would be news stories with complaints about passengers being wrongly refused and the airline would have to apologise.

Another perk of Brexit.

A parent from our school ended up flying to Belfast to get her DC a new passport. It came by courier two days later. It is possible.

The OP isn't being rude. She has stated that she knows the rules however is asking if anyone has been in the same situation. People who seem to have comprehension problems just keep repeating the rules to her which she has already stated, numerous times, that she knows. I'd lose my rag too if I were her.

I didn't blame Brexit or Boris when I forgot to take my credit and debit cards to the shops.

I would let DH and other DS go on the day and fingers crossed the day your DS pp arrives you can book flights and go same day/next day. Be prepared to pay through the nose given it's half term and last minute.

Have a cut off date agreed i.e. if new pp arrives on day 4 or later of the holiday, you and DS stay home and do nice things together/day trips etc.

It's rubbish I know, you never know it MAY come by your departure date if you can secure an earlier appointment than Fri 🤞

@olympicsrock can you go to Tunisia instead? No extra passport validity needed…

I was in your situation last year too, I ended up flying to Belfast to get the one and only appointment and it still took a week. We managed to move our flights back by a day and made it. But from my experience that is all you can do, there's no way around it. The appointments do update/change so the advice to keep checking is correct. You might get one earlier. Grim situation but definitely no point in travelling with your current passport.

We had to get our sons new passport in December 2019, booked a last min holiday for a couple of weeks time then realised his passport was up. We got a face to face at Liverpool for a couple of days later but we did have to wait for the passport to arrive by post, it took about five days. It's just not going to happen op

Just try and get the soonest appointment, are you open to traveling for one? We were told a week but it was 2/3 days.
Think you've had a hard time here as there was a thread a few days ago about someone's DH having no time on the passport left with travel the following day, they were encouraged to just turn up and hope for the best.

I worked in immigration law and policy and there is quite a bit of misinformation in this thread which isn’t helping OP or anyone in a similar position reading this in future.

Sadly your child will not be allowed to board OP because of the Carriers Liability (under UK and EU) which means a airline will be fined for allowing a passenger to travel without proper documentation. They will definitely check passport dates at departure.

Pre-Brexit we could travel within the European Union up until the last day of passport validity so this is a Brexit issue.

At time of posting there is an appointment in Belfast tomorrow and Glasgow on Thursday for the one week service but those aren’t much help unless you’re willing to shell out for flights your child and an adult to join the holiday in the second half of next week. In your situation I’d speak to the travel operator and negotiate a change of dates. Good luck.

It isn't really fair that he has to stay with a mate because his parents didn't bother / forgot to check the validity of his passport. Mistakes do happen but it's not very nice for him missing out on a family experience so I wouldn't consider option C at all.

This is just Gona cause nothing but stress. I'd pay the fee and move the holiday if possible. You can't leave ds while you all go on holiday poor lad will be devastated

its not brexit fault that you didnt check your passports when you booked a holiday oe even in the last few weeks

The office is in Liverpool. Can you go there?