Man with a year on his passport turned away from Ryanair flight to Portugal

27.04.2022 - 14:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

A man was turned away from a Ryanair flight to Portugal - despite having a year remaining on his passport. Ian Glover, 66, was blocked from boarding the flight when he attempted to check in his luggage at East Midlands Airport on Monday (April 25).

The retired chartered surveyor, from Derby, was travelling to Faro, Portugal, when he was informed that his passport's issue date was not close enough to the end of his travel. He believes passport validity rules need to be made simpler or it could chaos for holidaymakers attempting to fly abroad this summer.

Mr Glover renewed his passport early in 2012 when it still had a year to run, Derbyshire Live reports. That meant his date of expiry was listed as April 2023, meaning he currently has just under a year left on the document.

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He explained: “As I was going through the Ryanair check-in desk, she said that your passport isn’t valid. I said it was because I looked at the Government website and it said that it shouldn’t have been issued more than ten years ago, and it was issued in July 2012, which means the 10 years is July this year, and it also stated you needed to have three months from expiry, and the expiry is the 6th April 2023.

“I’d read stories about people having problems so I’d looked into it but thought I was fine. What Ryanair were saying was that the expiry date is irrelevant, it’s the issue date that matters.

“What they’re saying is that 10 years after the passport expires obviously, but they also want 3 months from the expiry of the date of issue. That’s not being made clear at all.”

Mr Glover was told by the Ryanair worker that the three months after