ID for internal UK easyjet flight
November 28, 2006 2:13 PM   Subscribe

To fly inside the UK (Stansted→Edinburgh) with easyjet, will I require a passport? If not, could I fly with only my ticket and a provisional driving license as photo ID?

Answers based on recent personal experience would be great, if possible. Easyjet's website and customer "support" are not something I want to rely on.
posted by matthewr to Travel & Transportation (14 answers total)
 
Best answer: I know, this is easyJet, but it's quite clear...
posted by rom1 at 2:31 PM on November 28, 2006


Response by poster: Thanks rom1, I failed miserably to find that page.
posted by matthewr at 2:38 PM on November 28, 2006


Check here as well regarding check-in procedures that may differ depending on or departure or destination airport.

In my experience, air travel to and from anywhere within the EU does not require a passport, just a photo ID. I've never had my passport checked or stamped when flying within the EU. Even at the land border crossings, they just checked for an ID of everyone in the car.

My first time to Europe we actually stopped at a land crossing between France and Germany, went into the office and asked them to stamp the our passports. We were told they don't even have the stamps anymore. :(
posted by youngergirl44 at 2:55 PM on November 28, 2006


In my experience, air travel to and from anywhere within the EU does not require a passport

Only within the Schengen area. UK border staff are pretty lax, but they still normally expect to see a passport.
posted by cillit bang at 3:00 PM on November 28, 2006


cillit bang:
Pardon, you are entirely mistaken as regards EU citizens.
posted by Goofyy at 1:50 AM on November 29, 2006


No Goofyy, Cillit Bang is right. Ireland, an EU member just like the UK, hasn't joined the Schengen area because of our Common Travel Area with the UK (the open border we have with NI would complicate things if we ever decided to change). My passport, therefore, is always checked when I go to the continent, but not between countries when I'm there.
posted by macdara at 4:37 AM on November 29, 2006


It would also be helpful, Goofyy, if you could provide evidence to back up your contradictory position, in the off chance that I'm completely mistaken (IANA lawyer, after all).
posted by macdara at 4:40 AM on November 29, 2006


Macdara: My Belgian partner requires no passport traveling between the continent and England. He uses a Belgian ID instead.
posted by Goofyy at 5:47 AM on November 29, 2006


macdara: IANAL either, but I'm married to a Belgian and we lived in both UK and Germany, and traveled often between the two, as well as trips to Belgium, from both. Between Schengen countries (Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austira, etc), there is typically no check at all, just drive through. Between the UK and the continent, there are checks. I had my passport (I'm USian), he just his ID. However, when traveling outside the EU, he has to use his passport.

Thanks for playing.
posted by Goofyy at 6:08 AM on November 29, 2006


On more careful reading (sorry, it's hot, the pool beckons, being summer here), sorry for the snark, I ass-umed you were USian. It is weird that you'd need a passport, unless that is because you lack an ID with the same magic/legal properties of a Belgian ID? If that's the case, it would be likely a British subject would need a passport too. (I even msg'd my partner to make sure my memory was correct, and he verified the fact. He's done the trip between the continent and the UK as recently as this year. We're now in South Africa)
posted by Goofyy at 6:17 AM on November 29, 2006


Between Schengen countries, there is typically no check at all, just drive through. Between the UK and the continent, there are checks.

Isn't this exactly what I said? Why are you disagreeing with me?
posted by cillit bang at 7:23 AM on November 29, 2006


Cillit bang: The question was of needing a passport. EU citizens don't need a passport between EU countries, if they can otherwise identify themselves. That such means of identification are non-existant in some member states is another idea, which hadn't occured to me. What can I say? I'm a yank, used to everyone having a driver's license that is an official ID, and my partner, who has a national ID (and whose driver's license is a life-long piece of paper, worthless for ID)
posted by Goofyy at 9:39 AM on November 29, 2006


Ah, you are right about filthy Belgians being allowed with just an ID card. I shall write to the Daily Mail about this outrage.
posted by cillit bang at 9:59 AM on November 29, 2006


It is weird that you'd need a passport, unless that is because you lack an ID with the same magic/legal properties of a Belgian ID?

We don't have national ID cards here in Ireland (hooray for civil liberties!), hence the necessity of a passport for EU travel. Glad that's all cleared up now.

(And apology for the snark accepted. I wish I was down in South Africa too; my fiancee lives in Pretoria, you see.)
posted by macdara at 11:27 AM on November 30, 2006


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