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You can travel freely to any EU, aspiring EU or Schengen country without need for a passport, you just need your national ID card. - https://en.wikipedia.org/w

You can travel freely to any EU, aspiring EU or Schengen country without need for a passport, you just need your national ID card. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement - https://www.bfm.admin.ch//bfm/en/home/themen/fza_schweiz-eu-efta.html https://www.bfm.admin.ch//bfm/en/home/themen/fza_schweiz-eu-... I've no intention of ever travelling to the US or any nation with similar travel requirements purely because that'd require a bio-metric passport. I dislike photos as it is ...

avar 13y ago
Note that some countries (e.g. Iceland) are in Schengen but have no accepted national ID card that isn't the passport, so de-facto you need your passport to travel, even within Schengen. I don't know if Iceland's the rare exception here or if this goes for some other countries as well.
- GunlogAlm 13y ago
  > I don't know if Iceland's the rare exception here or if this goes for some other countries as well. If you mean exception as an EU country with no national ID scheme: the UK, Denmark, Ireland, and Norway also don't have national ID cards. If you meant a Schengen country with no national ID: Denmark and Norway are other Schengen countries with no national ID cards (Norway isn't in the EU but is in the EFTA).
teh_klev 13y ago
Sadly the dream of passport-less travel in the EU is slowly being eroded by airlines demanding passports for photo ID. Although I'm a UK citizen I don't own a UK password, I refuse to pay for one when I have no desire to travel outside the EU (there's also political reasons, but I won't go into that here). Anyway, there are some destinations I can't fly to within the UK without a passport because certain operators such as Ryan Air will only accept a passport as photo ID, which is pretty dumb. FlyBe used to have this policy but I see they've recently relented and will now even let you board with just your senior citizen bus pass :)
- viraptor 13y ago
  > certain operators such as Ryan Air will only accept a passport as photo ID Is this some special case? I always fly with my national id rather than a passport and yes, I fly ryanair. Never had a problem with that.
  - maccard 13y ago
    Not really. They don't accept drivers licenses, so if you're flying from Ireland, your only option is a passport.
  - teh_klev 13y ago
    Ryan Air will accept national identity cards, except that the UK doesn't have a national identity card scheme. Also Ryan Air don't consider UK driver licenses a valid ID, even for UK citizens travelling WITHIN the UK.

avar 13y ago

Note that some countries (e.g. Iceland) are in Schengen but have no accepted national ID card that isn't the passport, so de-facto you need your passport to travel, even within Schengen. I don't know if Iceland's the rare exception here or if this goes for some other countries as well.

GunlogAlm 13y ago
> I don't know if Iceland's the rare exception here or if this goes for some other countries as well. If you mean exception as an EU country with no national ID scheme: the UK, Denmark, Ireland, and Norway also don't have national ID cards. If you meant a Schengen country with no national ID: Denmark and Norway are other Schengen countries with no national ID cards (Norway isn't in the EU but is in the EFTA).

teh_klev 13y ago

Sadly the dream of passport-less travel in the EU is slowly being eroded by airlines demanding passports for photo ID. Although I'm a UK citizen I don't own a UK password, I refuse to pay for one when I have no desire to travel outside the EU (there's also political reasons, but I won't go into that here). Anyway, there are some destinations I can't fly to within the UK without a passport because certain operators such as Ryan Air will only accept a passport as photo ID, which is pretty dumb. FlyBe used to have this policy but I see they've recently relented and will now even let you board with just your senior citizen bus pass :)

viraptor 13y ago
> certain operators such as Ryan Air will only accept a passport as photo ID Is this some special case? I always fly with my national id rather than a passport and yes, I fly ryanair. Never had a problem with that.
- maccard 13y ago
  Not really. They don't accept drivers licenses, so if you're flying from Ireland, your only option is a passport.
- teh_klev 13y ago
  Ryan Air will accept national identity cards, except that the UK doesn't have a national identity card scheme. Also Ryan Air don't consider UK driver licenses a valid ID, even for UK citizens travelling WITHIN the UK.