Budget airline Ryanair has said that a West Country airport was correct to deny overseas travel to a family after the mum was prevented from boarding the plane. Meg Gordon from Newquay told Cornwall Live that she was stopped from boarding a Ryanair flight destined for Portugal at the weekend when airport staff noticed her passport was not valid due to an EU ruling - despite it still being in date.
Meg, who works for the NHS, told our sister site: "We checked the bags in, had the passports checked and scanned - no problem, went through security and sat in the departure lounge and watched it fill up with other eager, excited passengers.
"Brilliant, the time had come to board the plane. Andy, Jas and Dylan [her husband and children] were in front of me, but when a member of the ground staff checked my passport she told me it’s out of date. I replied, ‘sorry I think you are mistaken it’s valid until April 2023’. ‘No it’s not’ - the ten years run from the issue date, in my case July 8, 2012.
