Originally Posted by
scousejohnny
Don't know if I'm posting this question in the correct place (apologies if not, this seemed to be the place at this forum most focused on Delta).
Quick question:
I'm a U.K. citizen living in the United States on a U.S. Green Card.
Flying home in March (Delta: Atlanta to Manchester, U.K.).
My British passport is about to expire, but will still be valid for a couple of weeks from the day I'm supposed to be flying from Atlanta to Manchester. I'll renew the passport at the passport office in Liverpool before my return flight from Manchester to Atlanta later in March.
So, the basic question is this. Airlines like to see six-month validity on passports, I know. But as a U.K. citizen flying into the United Kingdom on a U.K. passport that is still valid there is no problem as regards British immigration and border protection (I checked).
Will Delta give me a hard time boarding a plane to the U.K. on a British passport with less than 6 months validity left on it?
Thanks for any help/insight.
Highly unlikely to be a problem. Technically, it shouldn't be a problem regardless of whether or not you are flying from the US to the UK or the UK to the US when the travel only involves the US and EU countries. However, airline reps aren't known for always doing right by customers.
As a UK citizen returning non-stop from the US to the UK or via many a landside/airside transit in the EU, it shouldn't be an issue.
Originally Posted by
Often1
But, the point is that the air carrier is effectively the first checkpoint for entry. It is the carrier which is fined and must return the pax to his origin point if he is denied entry for lack of proper documents. If you don't have the docs for the carrier, you don't board the aircraft.
Not OP's problem.
Indeed not OP's problem.
For many incidences involving passengers returned to the point of origin for lack of proper documents, carriers may get fined; however, very often they are not fined. It's rather the exception for most major carriers to get fined when passengers are denied entry for lack of proper documentation. For example, a substantial chunk of attempted entries to the US by air that involve passengers being denied admission to the US for lack of proper documentation involves people coming into the US using the US VWP/ESTA process when not deemed entitled to it upon arrival at the US POE. They get sent back rather routinely, most commonly without any fine hitting the carrier for most such denial of admission due to lack of proper documentation.