Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
Tone,
There's been a number of people here who have travelled to Philippines from UK on a short validity Phils passport. As far as I know without problems, from my memory only ALL had a written letter of confirmation from the Philippine Embassy.

These days airlines have really tightened up on their check-in and boarding procedures.

Rightly or wrongly people DO get prevented from travelling for no proper reason.

It's a weakness of having the decisions of such importance being made at too low a pay grade.

I'm sure you can imagine the problems if travelling is prevented by an ill-informed airline employee. Not a pleasant situation and nothing much you can do about it at the time.

Personally, I think you have time enough to renew that passport and minimise risks.

The worst case scenario is that the new passport is somehow delay and you need to organise emergency travel documents from the Embassy. I doubt that will happen.

Just for the record she could travel on her passport to her home country with just 1 day validity.

Out of curiosity who is the carrier?
If it were PAL there'd be no issues at all.

The other consideration when transiting a flight connection is if anything unexpected happens at the interchange airport when different airlines are involved.

Just my opinion.
Hi Peter
We are travelling via Dubai on Emirates from Birmingham.

I would err on the side of caution and do as others and get the passport renewed to be honest as I don't want the stress of Rina being denied boarding.

I thought of calling the airline but as you say different opinions can be found by speaking to different people!

I just spoke to the Embassy and they say the passport renewals are taking 6 weeks so we have time, and have printed the forms off and have everything to hand.

We wont change the name at this stage - just renew as it is.

Thanks!

Tone