My son is getting married in August, and my daughter will have to fly up from Southampton to Glasgow. She doesn't have a passport, and only has a provisional driving licence. Can anyone with previous experience of this kind of scenario tell me please if she would encounter any problems, and also what documents she would need to have with her?
Probably flying with Flybe. I'm paying for the ticket (Dad's privilege).
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Internal flight, all I have ever needed is a ticket, latterly using self service terminals, just the credit card it was booked with. If the D/L has a photo on it, it will do in case anyone gets stroppy about ID.
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Thanks Z. Thought that may be the case, just wanted to check before I book the flight.
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Funnily enough I was watching a re-run of that reality show following EasyJet staff at Luton and others last night and this came up - you must have a photo ID.
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Excellent, thanks very much
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>>Probably flying with Flybe. I'm paying for the ticket (Dad's privilege).
Book early, as booking just before you go can be eye watering.
I have recently looked at Flybe to Birmingham for a funeral - £300+ for early ish flight down & late back, Middle of day down/overnight/middle day up a lot cheaper but hotel hassle! Location I am going to is well south of Birmingham and then thought of Easyjet to Bristol - no early flight down however - under £80 return - so picking a different airline / airport can be cheaper.
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Look at going via Europe -
preview.tinyurl.com/h7pb4z3
But make sure you cost in a passport! Surely she will need one sometime in the next 10 years?
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A friend of mine is going on a two week motoring tour of BC this summer with his daughters and their partners. Due to work constraints it has to be July...when we looked at flights LHR to Vancouver with BA prices were around £1200.
Travelling GLA>LHR>Vancouver £507. Same flight from LHR!
Airline ticketing is a dark science
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If you use Schiphol instead of Heathrow as a hub you can avoid the UK long haul tax and trim the fare a bit more.
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>> Dublin for us. !
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I think that now IAG own Aer Lingus Flights from Dublin will expand and get lots of UK passengers.
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"...now IAG own Aer Lingus Flights from Dublin will expand and get lots of UK passengers."
That was half the reason IAG bought Aer Lingus. The other half was to get access to their slots at Heathrow and - after a politically acceptable (in Ireland) delay - reuse them for long haul routes rather than, say, the A319s shuttling to and from Shannon.
If heading to the US, you can also get US immigration pre-clearance at Dublin and Shannon.
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Homeland Security in Dublin makes a huge difference. When we flew to Boston in 2014 - we disembarked at Domestic arrivals...brilliant. We live 20 minutes from Holyhead - so decided to overnight in Ireland so we could fly out early the next morning. We over-nighted at Swords which is a dump. If we did that again I might re-think that element....the Guinness was nice though.
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>> Homeland Security in Dublin makes a huge difference. When we flew to Boston in 2014
>> - we disembarked at Domestic arrivals
How much faster is it overall? Is it just a case of six and two threes?
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No...bearing in mind that HS are processing only a couple of flights in Dublin whereas BOston might be processing half a dozen flights at any one time, you can do the maths. We were through in a matter of minutes.
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"We over-nighted at Swords which is a dump."
Maldron hotel opposite terminal 2 is my preferred overnight stop for early flights, its within suitcase-tugging distance of departures if you're leaving before the shuttle buses start.
Radisson Blu is also within the airport grounds. Next best option is Bewley's Hotel, offsite but with a regular bus link and the option of on-site parking by the week if you've come over on the ferry.
Most of the other "airport" hotels are at a distance from the airport itself, and the bus links are irregular at best. And "Swords" in hotel-speak often means Ballymun, one of the most deprived areas of Dublin. Swords town itself is north of the airport and is a pleasant commuter village.
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>>Ballymun.
Used to live there. Bit lairy for sure. Don't think I'd stay there now.
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Last time we went to NY i looked at going via holland, but it does add time onto the flight and this had a knock on in terms of flight times. Wasn't any cheaper that i can remember. But it's worth a look if it falls right.
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Personally I always fly via Schipol when visiting my CA friends. I always catch the early morning KLM from Leeds Bfd then transit via LA, Seattle or Portland before connecting to Sacramento.
Arriving late afternoon it isn't the cheapest flight option, but the sheer convenience of the flight times, an easy drive to my local airport, the stress free flight connections make it worth the slight extra cost.
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Check the Ts & Cs...Ryanair only accept passports on Ireland-UK flights at least, even though any photo ID is accepted by border control on arrival from any UK or RoI airport. It was the same rule for domestic UK flights last time I had to use one.
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The new self-service ESTA terminals at US airports make the Shannon route redundant. Formalities took barely two minutes my last couple of times at ATL, on direct DL and BA flights from LHR. Easier than coming home.
Incidentally, and just for fun, here's a list of acceptable IDs from 2004 that I found on the EasyJet corporate website:
A valid passport - an expired passport can be used up to a maximum of two years after expiry
Valid photographic EU or Swiss national identity card
Valid photographic driving licence
Valid armed forces identity card
Valid police warrant card/badge
Valid airport employees security identity pass
A child on parent' s passport is an acceptable form of ID
CitizenCard
Valid photographic firearm certificate [presumably without the firearm]
Valid Government-issued identity card
SMART card
Electoral identity card
Pension book [this one is still in the list and doesn't even require a photo - more preferential treatment for oldies]
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Same for us, we used newark and it was easy to arrive into the us. It was longer to depart than arrive. After collecting bags it was no more than a couple of minutes for both of us to get through.
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It really is time the UK had compulsory photo ID. Aside from anything else it makes life so much easier.
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It needn't even be compulsory; voluntary but standardized would do. I'd have one.
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>> It needn't even be compulsory; voluntary but standardized would do. I'd have one.
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Isn't there one already in place?
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>> It really is time the UK had compulsory photo ID. Aside from anything else it
>> makes life so much easier.
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Typical expat, moaning about Britain even though they don't live here
;-))
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That's not a moan. Just a personal comment.
If personal ID were available I would have one...I don't think it will be made compulsory in the short to medium term, it would upset too many people.
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It was just a joke, hence the smiley.
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>> If personal ID were available I would have one...I don't think it will be made
>> compulsory in the short to medium term, it would upset too many people.
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it would soon become compulsory, on a de facto basis, once it became widely accepted in commercial and social transactions eg buying drinks, proof of ID for collecting parcels etc.
I am one of those who cannot see any real reason why not. I would have one, although I would expect a valid photo driving licence to be a more than adequate equivalent anyway
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>> it would soon become compulsory, on a de facto basis, once it became widely accepted
>> in commercial and social transactions eg buying drinks, proof of ID for collecting parcels etc.
Yup compulsion not required. But you try getting medical treatment or any other service without one.
>> I am one of those who cannot see any real reason why not. I would
>> have one, although I would expect a valid photo driving licence to be a more
>> than adequate equivalent anyway
The ID card and driving license should be one and the same. All your entitlements should be on your ID card.
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The crucial factor would be for it to qualify as a European Identity Document, so it could serve in lieu of a passport within the EEA. That would deal with the frequent traveller's headache of needing to go to, say, Rome while the passport is away being processed for a Saudi visa.
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That would deal with
>> the frequent traveller's headache of needing to go to, say, Rome while the passport is
>> away being processed for a Saudi visa.
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You could get a second passport, i got another one last year for that sort of thing. Granted an id might be cheaper than a passport but probably not a great deal over 10 years.
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Seems to be creeping in anyway. Mrs B has been getting quotes for hotel accommodation to attend a conference in the summer. All quotes state photo id required at guest registration. In that case may be a Belfast/NI thing but I was asked for it arriving at Longthwaite Youth Hostel last year.
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Didn't they believe that you were a "youth"?
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>> Didn't they believe that you were a "youth"?
No they need to make sure you look like Bear Grylls.
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I thought this thread was going to be far more controversial than it actually is.
I really must get a proper pair of glasses because the title definitely read "domestic fights in the UK" to me.
:-)
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Mon 14 Mar 16 at 18:14
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This is a non event in thread drift terms.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Mon 14 Mar 16 at 19:02
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Domestic flights in the UK - Zero
