[OSM-talk] SOTM weekend accommodation?

[Barnett, Phillip]

I can give you an authoritative answer to this one because I flew
Ryanair from Stansted to Dublin last week with an expired passport.
I hadn't noticed that my passport was one week out of date - neither did
the check-in lady to whom I showed it, neither did the Security check
just before airside. Only as I handed my boarding card to the stewardess
did she take a closer look and balked. 'You do know your passport has
expired?'

Luckily, they DO accept drivers licenses, even, in my case, provisional
licenses (I really must get round to taking a test) - and she was
perfectly happy about it. As were Dublin check-in staff and security on
the reverse journey.

So no, you don't need a passport to fly Ryanair from UK to ROI.

Weirdly, on the way back, after disembarking at Stansted, and before
customs/passport control, an officious looking woman was inspecting
_boarding_ cards. She was backed up by half a dozen serious looking men,
so she meant business. I have no idea what that was about, but luckily
I'd kept mine. It's not beyond possibility that I'd have thrown mine
away at some point, as I'd never thought I'd have to produce one AFTER a
flight.

Any ideas?


 
 



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From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Renaud Martinet
Sent: 24 June 2008 18:29
To: Martijn van Oosterhout
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org; Nick Whitelegg
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM weekend accommodation?

They surely do accept european ID cards as I always used that at the
immigration in Heathrow coming from France and going up to Scotland.

In fact you could go through immigration in London only with your
thick French accent, happened to me like 3 years ago. It was just
after the bombings in London and I had lost all my IDs some time ago.
Hopefully they were not too picky and let me board my flight to
Aberdeen. I guess it's just a matter of really looking like who you're
pretending to be :)


Renaud.




On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout
<kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Renaud Martinet <karouf at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Probably any European ID proving your nationality would do but better
>> to check. Usually they give advice when you book the flight.
>
> AIUI within the EU you only need to carry *some* kind of (probably
> official looking) photo identification, it doesn't have to be a
> passport (though that has the advantage of being recognised everywhere
> in the world). Between schengen countries you're not required to show
> it at the border.
>
> If you arrive at a londen airport it even says that ID cards are
> acceptable for EU citizens.
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
>

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