Travel without passport! Oops!

[ftm42]

I have handed in my ESs passport and Euro insurance cards to his school for them to photocopy prior to a trip to Europe at the end of June. However, we are travelling to Glasgow on Friday and the documentation states we need passports as id. I can't retrieve from school as it's half-term!

Does my son need his for domestic flights, given that I need my passport in order to collect the tickets and I have passports for the other 2 sons? Also, I have an expired passport for ES which I might be able to use but it expired Sept 08. Do I need a passport for him or will the expired one 'do'?

I think that sometimes a birth certificate is acceptable for internal flights, but I would advise getting in touch with the airline to find out.

It is possible that people will be in school at some time over half term - teachers tend to go in maybe for a day to sort things out so you may be able to get in touch with school.

Get in touch with the airline and ask them. Most airlines only actually need photographic ID of some sort for domestic flights e.g. driving licence (not appropriate I realise) so they MIGHT accept a birth certificate for a child.

If you're flying with Ryanair you're probably screwed, though.

Is there a school care taker - could you look up the headteachers details on 192 ?

Thanks for the advice! I have now sent an e-mail to the school office and the teacher in charge of the trip. As you say, hopefully someone will pick it up! I shall look out his birth certificate too [NoahATW - didn't consider that one!].

Squeaver - tried FlyBe's customer helpline and just got a dead line - not even a "we're closed today, call back tomorrow" message!! Very helpful.

does this help?

It looks like the expired passport will be ok.

Yes! Thank goodness for that! Thanks Squeaver! Will print that page immediately and add to my document pile!! Phew!