Irish Passport Cards

[BurloX]

Aer Lingus do not accept Irish Passport Cards. Mega inconvenient to revert to collecting paper boarding passes at airport. They are really useful & compact and function as full Passport for everything Europe in our experience including Ryanair as an example.

 

[ClubMan]

Aer Lingus do not accept Irish Passport Cards.

You mean specifically for online check-in?

Aer Lingus

When online check in is not available​

Online check in is not available in the following situations but don't worry you can still check in at the airport for free.

• If you don't have a passport or are travelling with an Irish passport card or EU National Identity card.
• ...

The thread title is unclear/misleading. It suggests that AL don't accept passport cards at all for booking, check-in, travel etc.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Mega inconvenient to revert to collecting paper boarding passes at airport.

Do you not have a full passport as well?

I found it annoying being unable to check in with a passport card and not knowing the reason why.
But I discovered that they don't accept cards so I checked in with my full passport.

From memory, I just showed them the card at the gate and they were happy with that. I did have my full passport in my bag, just in case.

Brendan

 

[Wandering_Dazed]

Aer Lingus do not accept Irish Passport Cards

They most certainly do accept passport cards as do RyanAir. On my last passport renewal I decided to get a passport card. Tried it out for flights to Glasgow and Manchester and then to Barcelona....didn't have any issues but still got the pesky boarding passes.

Irish passport card

You can use the Irish passport card for travel within the European Union and the European Economic Area.

www.citizensinformation.ie

In short haven't had an issue to date.