Dad managed to travel to Spain on holiday using a passport – belonging to his 12-year-old daughter
Stunned dad didn't realised he had wrong ID until he landed in Malaga after Ryanair flight
A DAD managed to travel to Spain on holiday using a passport - belonging to his 12-year-old DAUGHTER.
Billy Stevenson, 38, only realised he had mistakenly picked up his daughter Ellen's passport after travelling from Stanstead to Malaga.
He and wife Clare, 34, flew with budget airline Ryanair at 6.30am on June 9, but say they were allowed onto the plane with the wrong passport.
Clare, from Welling, Herts, said the only time the passports were checked was right at the gate before getting on the plane.
She said: "It wasn't until we got to Spain and realised we had Ellen's passport.
"We were standing in the queue at immigration and were worrying we wouldn't be let into the country.
"We told the border officials we haven't got Billy's passport and they were just asking us how we don't have it.
"The police took us down this corridor into the little police station and they kept asking where the child was.
"We were explaining she wasn't with us, she was at school."
Clare said their romantic trip away, while the kids were with their uncle, was ruined because they had to spend the entire trip coordinating with friends to reunite them with the right ID.
The mum-of-two, who works as an emergency call handler, posted her predicament on Facebook.
She wrote: "When you land at Malaga airport and realise your husband has travelled to Spain on your 12-year-old daughter's passport."
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Billy, a gas engineer, and Clare were inundated with well wishes and a friend, who was travelling to the same city agreed to bring Billy's passport with him on his way to a stag-do.
Clare said: "We were allowed out of the airport to spend the weekend there but couldn't fly back without the passport.
"We were so lucky that we had friends coming so Billy's mum took the passport to our friend who we met in arrivals.
"It was meant to be a break away from the kids turned but turned out to be so stressful."
Clare said she hasn't complained to Ryanair but said that the passports must not have been checked properly.
She said: "The woman at the gate took the passports and just handed them right back and let us through.
"It is quite bad that we were able to pass. That was the only time they were checked before we actually got to Spain."
She added that Ellen thought the entire situation was hilarious.
Clare said: "Ellen couldn't believe it when we got back and told her what happened, she was just laughing."
Ryanair have been approached for comment.