29 year old man mistakenly uses 2 year old daughter's passport; allowed to fly anyway

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29-year-old Rayleigh, Essex resident Mark Coshever was allowed on board an easyJet flight from Luton to Amsterdam after he accidentally flashed them his two-year-old daughter Alicia's passport. The airline failed twice to catch the mistake.

The car rental owner said he grabbed the wrong one before he left and didn't even realize his mistake until after he landed. "I was shocked that I could fly to a major international airport on a child's passport," he said.

He was able to use his real driver license to secure a 48-hour stay in Holland. When he returned home Thursday, an easyJet staff member met him as he deplaned to allow him through. The airline faces a £2,000 fine.

http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=5...FTOKEN=84442544

[Anna C. 4]

To fly within the EU you only need to have a photo ID ready. I never used my passport for flights from Germany to France/Italy/GB/Ireland. My government ID was sufficient.

Edited September 19, 2006 by Anna C.

[Marc and Olga 0]

29-year-old Rayleigh, Essex resident Mark Coshever was allowed on board an easyJet flight from Luton to Amsterdam after he accidentally flashed them his two-year-old daughter Alicia's passport. The airline failed twice to catch the mistake.

The car rental owner said he grabbed the wrong one before he left and didn't even realize his mistake until after he landed. "I was shocked that I could fly to a major international airport on a child's passport," he said.

He was able to use his real driver license to secure a 48-hour stay in Holland. When he returned home Thursday, an easyJet staff member met him as he deplaned to allow him through. The airline faces a £2,000 fine.

http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=5...FTOKEN=84442544

To fly within the EU you only need to have a photo ID ready. I never used my passport for flights from Germany to France/Italy/GB/Ireland. My government ID was sufficient.

Um, but he used a passport to go...nowhere does it say he used a second form of ID.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

To fly within the EU you only need to have a photo ID ready. I never used my passport for flights from Germany to France/Italy/GB/Ireland. My government ID was sufficient.

If true, EasyJet shouldn't be fined.

[Anna C. 4]

Maybe because GB has different laws... I dunno! Just can talk about my experience. The only reason why I got a passport issued was for travel to the US! Maybe they are fined because they accepted the daughter's passport or maybe the GB DL doesn't have a picture? I never tried to use my DL though....

[Savanphil 3]

What a mix up

[Dr_LHA 3]

To fly within the EU you only need to have a photo ID ready. I never used my passport for flights from Germany to France/Italy/GB/Ireland. My government ID was sufficient.

Yes, but the UK doesn't have a government ID (yet), so a passport may have been the only ID this guy had, and you need some sort of ID to fly.

EDIT: Not all drivers licenses in the UK have photo IDs, the old style paper ones just have name and address.

Edited September 19, 2006 by dr_lha

[Anna C. 4]

Thanks Dr. Lha!!! He probably traveled with an old DL. I just remembered my last trip to Brighton (1998) and they were happy with my ID...

Yeah I remembered my politics class from High School and looked something up....

EU, EEA, and the Schengen treaty

Citizens of the European Economic Area (the European Union plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) enjoy the freedom to travel and work in any European Union country without a visa.

Furthermore, countries that have signed and applied the Schengen treaty (a subset of the EEA) do not implement passport controls between each other, unless exceptional circumstances apply.

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However, since the UK has not signed the Schengen treaty, he will have to carry at least a national ID card, which will normally be checked at the border.

[rebeccajo 14]

Seeing as how EasyJet are such GIGANTIC pricks about photo ID, I find this more than mildly amusing. No surprise to me either - their desk clerks are rude, gruff and don't even look you in the face unless they have something nasty to say. It doesn't surprise me at all that this happened.

Maybe then can use some of the 300 bucks they overcharged us last summer to change the return of two $80 flights by 24 hours to pay their fine.

[mawilson 2,133]

Here's a story of a man in the UK who flew to Italy and back, having his

passport checked several times. However, he'd mistakenly picked up

his wife's passport! No one noticed.

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