Comment by jdeibele

Airlines seem to have a policy of passports need to be valid (not expire) for six months after the trip.

Our daughter was going overseas and we had to get her passport renewed because it would expire 3 months after she would have gotten home. The country was fine with that but there was a chance that she would show up at the airport and the airline would not allow her to board because it was less than 6 months.

If the airline lets them fly and they're rejected, the airline has to get them back and the airline doesn't want to risk that.