Booking a package holiday with easyJet holidays? For a limited window, the operator will refund the £66.50 fee for your child's first UK passport - provided the child is 18 months or younger at the time of booking.
The promotion runs until 26 November at 11pm, with claim details posted at easyjet.com/firstpassport. It's a small but practical sweetener for families with very young children, and easyJet says demand is already there: the company reported a 10 per cent rise in infants travelling this year compared with 2025.
Why the focus on baby passports? A survey of 2,000 parents commissioned by the operator found one in ten didn't realise a baby needs their own passport until they started planning a trip. And once they did apply, the paperwork proved fiddly - a quarter of parents said it took up to six attempts to get their baby's passport photo approved. Anyone who has tried to photograph a newborn against a plain white background, eyes open, mouth closed, will recognise the struggle.
Some context on the fees themselves: a first child passport in the UK costs £66.50 online or £80 via a paper Post Office form, is available for any child under 16, and lasts five years - babies included. Current processing time is around three weeks, so families eyeing a winter sun break should apply well ahead of their departure date. Stuart Wright, customer director at easyJet Holidays, framed the offer as a way of helping families get that first holiday - often a milestone memory - underway sooner.
There's related good news at the border, too. Since 8 July, children aged eight and nine returning to the UK have been allowed to use the automated e-gates, which previously required passengers to be at least 10. The facial recognition gates are generally faster than manual checks, though kids must be at least 120cm tall so the biometric scanners can see them, and they have to be accompanied by an adult. For families, it should mean shorter queues than the old setup, where under-10s funneled into the staffed passport booths.
For new parents, the takeaway is simple: babies can't fly on your passport, the application takes weeks, and if you're booking with easyJet holidays before the deadline you could claw back the fee on a child up to 18 months old. Even if you're not, it's a prompt to get the application in early - six photo attempts and a three-week wait can eat into your planning time fast.
