Travelling in November, Passport expires in December, any problem?

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As above.

I'm travelling to/from Tenerife in November and my passport will expire in mid-December. While from my perspective that seems 100% legitimate, am I likely to run into any issues with either Aer Lingus, Ryanair or Spanish immigration?

And, permit me gently to point out that I am well aware that I could renew my passport before travelling if I wanted to; but I don't!
 
I'm assuming that you have an Irish passport...


Irish passports do not have a minimum validity requirement while travelling to the UK or within the EU. When travelling within Europe with an Irish passport, it should be valid for the duration of your stay.
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Not sure if Aer Lingus/Ryanair have additional passport validity requirements.


https://www.aerlingus.com/prepare/passports-and-visas/travel-within-europe/
 
What Clubman said holds good for any EU/EEA passport. But if the OP is travelling on a non-EU/EEA passport then I think he will run into difficulty. It should be valid until 3 months after his intended date of departure from the Schengen zone (and it must have been issued not more than 10 years before his date of entry into the Schengen zone).
 
Didn't Spain mention they were tightening up on this in the last year ? I recall something but t may have been directed at non-eu (mainly british ex pats)
 
I think it’s madness

a) asking this on here
b) expecting any of us to know, your nationality, your passport origins, the rules on Ryanair, the rules on Aer Lingus, the Irish departure rules, the Irish return rules, the rules in Spain, the rules particular to the Canaries, the 10 year issue rules, the 6 month expiry rule, the 3 month expiry rule
c) not getting a new passport prior to now, mid October, if you were booking a trip.

The safest thing to do is to have a passport, EU or British, with more than 6 months validity until expiry, not to book any flight for November, with a passport expiring in December, UNTIL you know the rules.
 
Alienated said:
I fully respect your right to think.
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My youngest flew on an expired Irish passport, Aer Lingus if I recall correctly, to Faro Portugal, and back again, in the last 5 years, so go figure :)

I was telephoned at 5 am and asked by panicked child how was I going to sort it! Not being God Almighty, and mightly disgruntled at being woken up from an entirely preventable problem, which they had been informed of, I told them there wasn’t a hope in hell of getting on their flight, or of “negotiating” with Ryanair, or even delusion-ally thinking this was a problem I could sort out, I’m good, but I’m not actually stupid. BUT I’m a “Mammy”, sent them off to get an emergency passport, booked a flight once I knew that was certain, * and as this is AAM, billed them for the flight cost, emergency passport cost minus normal passport cost.

What advice do you actually want? Why are you cutting this so fine? Have you booked flights? Have you checked passport rules for every leg?

* they had a new passport next day, and flight too. Especially thanks to the kind people in the passport office.
 
People are overthinking a simple enquiry. My question was answered - to my complete satisfaction - by Clubman, 5 minutes after I had posted it.
 
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