Flying to Belfast ...passport details.....

[mancmo]

Flying to belfast on saturday..but can't find anywhere on the flybe website where we have to enter our passport details..which I thought was the norm now before you fly??

Is the information not required as we are still flying within the uk??

Thanks!! xx

[jno]

you shouldn't need one any more than if you're going to Penge, as far as I know, but the airline may still require some form of identification from you

[Nibble]

All you need is a piece of photo ID, i.e driving licence, student card, etc. a passport can be used, however it is not a requirement as your not travelling internationally. We recently travelled with FlyBe, and personally I travelled with my driving licence with photo card, this was from Manston (Kent International) to Edinburgh, as you're travelling to Belfast, I think the same applies, but better check..... I don't want to give you totally duff info ☺

[Prudie]

I regularly book domestic flights with Flybe. They only require photo ID as Nibble says and no need to enter passport info prior to flying.

[naomi24]

You need photo ID, so why not take your passport? Seems the easiest option to me wherever you're going. At least that way you can be sure you won't encounter problems.

[twix123]

From the Flybe website:

Domestic/Republic of Ireland travel

All passengers, adults, children and infants, travelling to the Republic of Ireland must have a form of ID which proves their nationality/citizenship for immigration purposes.

A valid passport
An expired passport (domestic flights only up to 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
Valid Government-issued identity card
SMART card
Electoral identity card
Photographic disabled badge
NUS card photographic (National Union of Students)
Photographic university/college ID card
Company ID card of nationally recognised company (photographic)
Council issued bus pass (senior citizens only)
Pension book (the only acceptable form of non-photographic identification)
Young Scot card


I often fly into Belfast with Easyjet and use my photo driving license as Id, but flying into Derry last year with Ryanair we had to use our passports as driving licences were not acceptable, therefore the id for domestic flights would seem to be up to the individual airline.

[mancmo]

You three are fab! thanks very much! xx

[mancmo]

Thanks Twix x

[FredPuli43]

When you return, hang on to your boarding pass! Dublin is also i.d by driving licence etc. When I came back from there, I found that, to get back in and go through the non-passport gate, I had to produce the boarding card. As it happened, I'd been using my passport as i.d. but the jobsworth wouldn't accept that coming back in and wouldn't allow me to go back and go through the gate for arrivals from France etc. Only my boarding card would do. That resulted in my having to forage around to try to find the darned thing, which happily I hadn't left on the plane. Sounds mad, but I expect it's the same from Belfast.

[twix123]

Fred - normally domestic arrivals are kept separate from international arrivals, even to using different routes in the terminal to a separate baggage collection point.

[FredPuli43]

Exactly so , twix. But why a British passport is not sufficient to allow any British citizen to arrive at and pass through an airport in his own country, but a boarding card is, is not obvious. The card proves nothing except that the bearer appears to have arrived on a particular flight. Flights from the Irish Republic are treated, by agreement, as 'domestic' for UK passport purposes, just as true 'domestic' flights are. So I expect that the same daft rule applies to Belfast flights.

[Wrangler3]

The boarding card is retained to prove you were on a domestic flight so that you don't have to join the queues to show your passport. Remember you don't need a passport to travel within the UK but most people use them as airline rules (not Immigration or Dept for Travel) demand photo ID. I once flew into Stansted from Jersey and foolishly threw away my boarding card stub and as a result I had to go through the usual immigration channels and show my passport. Taught me to be more careful!

[boxtops]

As far as I'm aware, it's only flights to Spain where you have to add your passport details - we haevn't had to do it for anywhere else, pre-flight.