Originally Posted by
Stranger
Actually, no. Like Bartolo says, use your Canadian passport when chicking in with AC, both ways. Just use an EU passport when going through passport control in and out of the EU.
Even if going to a country the requires Canadians to have a visa, I leave my Canadian passport in the file, but when the agent checks for entry eligibility at destination, I show the second passport. Which actually is not entered in the file, I believe.
That seems to be the best way to do it in the situation I am in.
I could have made it easier by simply just entering my son's name listed in his EU passport and just show that at check-in which would have been a non-issue but becuase the Aeroplan account is connected with his Canadian passport that name got entered and I only thought about this after tickets had been issued.
My main concern was that even if we show the EU passport if it is an over eager check-in agent, he or she could say that she can't accept the 2nd passport as proof of entry because my sons middle name is missing there.
I know it's just a technicality but I've had my share of over eager agents making things much more complicated than they actually were because they strictly go by what they are reading in their system provided by the airline.
I am comfortable with this scenario as you and others had mentioend to show the Canadian passport at check in to match with the ticket and if asked for return ticket, we'll show the EU passport which allows us to stay in the EU indefinitely.