Further ID Card FAIL...

Seems I was off the mark when wondering why the Manchester Evening News didn't report about the latest ID Card cock-up. Instead, they were actually doing some investigating and found:

Customer service staff at nine major travel companies – including British Airways, Eurostar and BMI baby – told M.E.N reporters posing as customers that the cards could NOT be used instead of passports.

Not just P and O Ferries then...

Eight of the nine companies later issued statements saying staff had given the wrong advice – and that the cards COULD be used after all. But Eurostar remained unsure. A spokesman said: “We are unable to confirm whether the ID cards are valid on Eurostar at this time.”
Meanwhile two major German airlines said they would not accept the cards until they had been officially recognised by the German federal authorities.

So, on the assumption you can get on Eurostar  in the current weather, take a passport and not an ID Card, and probably not an idea to use one why flying on German airlines...

ID Cards, the gift that keeps on giving.