Didn't think to check Timatic. And, indeed, I get the dreaded red x if I input the info with an expired US passport.
Interestingly, checking Timatic to enter the UK on 15 March with a UK passport that expired on 9 January 2018 - gets the green check mark for OK to board. As does checking same dates to enter Germany with an expired German passport. Or to enter Germany with an expired French passport with the same dates. But, can't enter Germany with an expired UK or Greek passport for the same dates.
Originally Posted by
Newbie2FT
TIMATIC instructs the airline websites, check-in agents, and gate agents
not to issue that person a ticket or check them in:
Could that person somehow possibly find a sympathetic agent at the ticket counter for an emergency ticket with an expired US passport and a sob story about an imminent family death back home, and how the traveler had never believed there would be a need to renew the passport? Possibly.
But obviously they'd be much better off getting a same-day, emergency passport at the local US consulate or embassy.