想請問各位香港人,你們出國時需要帶你們香港ID嗎?

You are absolutely correct. 台灣護照就是我們在國外的身分證 I am surprised that BA did not even trained him to recognise passenger's passport.

Actually, a lot of countries in the world does not even have ID card (e.g. USA, UK, Japan) Passport is the only recognised type of document to identify yourself outside your country, so ID card has a LOWER authority of identity purposes. (Some country don't have centralises ID database. In USA, only the individual states issue driving licence and ID card) Only national government can issue passports. So the authority is HIGHER.

Hong Kong is a special case that you do not need to use passport to depart, because some people are flying to Mainland China and they do not need passport to fly. On top, many HK residents are not even using HK passport to go to another country. They use their Australian, Canadian, American....... passport to fly.

It is possible to use HK passport to leave HK, but it is a little more inconvenient for the immigration officer, and many people don't even notice that.


With regard to that nosy BA staff, you could have told him/her to shut up, because his main job is to check whether you have a valid passport and visas for your destinations and check-in your luggages. That's all! I do not see why (s)he is asking you all these questions, 你的生日?你有幾個兄姐? It is entirely out of his scope of work. Exactly, who is he calling to check whether you have just one piece of check-in luggage? I think you became another victim of bored check-in staff wanting some laughs.

I'm not sure how it works in Taiwan. But whenever a HK citizen departs from HK, he/she needs to carry the ID as the passport doesn't do the thing. So you suppose to carry two pieces of document (at least), meaning the HKID, and passport/certificate of identity (CI).

Of course it might due to the lack of understanding of that ground staff.

這一個問題問得好~~
但你唔帶ID CARD請問你點出境呀??

在台灣是出國是用台灣護照的，是代表著你們的身份這是由於你們在出境時在經過入境局時都是用護照出境及入境的，所以你們出國多是不會習慣帶ID卡
而香港的入境處可以讓我們香港持有身份證的居民運用身份證(ID卡)出入境，所以我們出國時為了方便出入境，減少排大隊蓋印章的情況，如果你有留意，或曾來過香港都會發現香港人的那條出入境多了一條E道，這是使我們拿有晶片ID卡的香港人則快過關口。我想你所遇到的問題是入境局採用不同的文件而引身的問題
至於國泰航空的那位服務員這樣做我只可以評她為沒水準的工作人員，因為她不明白，不理解外國人士的情況，單一的以香港人的經驗來推斷其他人的處境
我十分明白你們會不習慣帶ID卡出國，因為你們不能單以ID卡來作出入境的證明文件，因為我丈夫是台灣人，他到港時都不會習慣帶ID卡來的，而我返台灣時，他初時都很奇怪我會帶HKID出國，直至近期他都有了一張HKID才發現將HKID帶出國的好處

當然唔需要啦! 在外國身分證是沒有用的! 我聖誕節去完歐洲都無這情形, 你的英國航空的服務小姐有問題!!!