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Name change
by atoutprix Sat 3 Mar 2012 - 13:55
Changing the name of the ticket cost 110 euros :
A passenger name can be changed online at the rate of £110/€110 or via the airport or reservation centre at the rate of £160/€160. Name changes can be made up to 4 hours prior to the scheduled flight departure time either online (unless you have already checked in online*)or via a reservation centre (subject to opening hours). Any name change made to a flight reservation must be for that individual passenger's complete flight itinerary.
http://www.ryanair.com/en/terms-and-conditions#regulations-flightandnamechanges
Why is it that expensive ?
Somebody asked that question on PPRuNe and a "DublinPole" posted this answer, which strikes me as a very good reason :
It's to stop people from buying flights in bulk and then selling them off for higher prices. This makes it fairer for everyone and stops people from buying all the cheap flights and selling them for profit, which has happened years ago when this fee was much smaller.
It was not uncommon years ago when the 1p flights and the 1 euro flights were released they would be all sold out on many journeys within an hour, the flights would then be resold by travel agents as part of packages for profit, as lets face it, with that many cheap seats you could easily recover your costs with just a small number of people purchasing the resold seats from you.
I was on several flights where there was 189 passengers booked only for the plane to be half empty. Research showed that the majority of people who were not arriving were all those who had the cheapest cost flights. Also on some flights it was the same names coming up again and again that never turned out, most likely fake names used by the travel agents over and over again on flights they intended to resell - all it meant is the people who actually wanted to fly on the cheap flights never got them because they were bought up by travel agents as in investment.
In any case, name corrections or typing errors are fixed free of charge, all you need to do is to phone up the reservations line to change the name on the ticket and they can do it no problem. This is the case for things such as missing middle names, mis-spaced names, incorrect punctuation, and typing or spelling errors. If you want to change the name totally you need to pay.
(DublinPole : I hope you don't mind me using your text - if you do, please send me a PM)
A passenger name can be changed online at the rate of £110/€110 or via the airport or reservation centre at the rate of £160/€160. Name changes can be made up to 4 hours prior to the scheduled flight departure time either online (unless you have already checked in online*)or via a reservation centre (subject to opening hours). Any name change made to a flight reservation must be for that individual passenger's complete flight itinerary.
http://www.ryanair.com/en/terms-and-conditions#regulations-flightandnamechanges
Why is it that expensive ?
Somebody asked that question on PPRuNe and a "DublinPole" posted this answer, which strikes me as a very good reason :
It's to stop people from buying flights in bulk and then selling them off for higher prices. This makes it fairer for everyone and stops people from buying all the cheap flights and selling them for profit, which has happened years ago when this fee was much smaller.
It was not uncommon years ago when the 1p flights and the 1 euro flights were released they would be all sold out on many journeys within an hour, the flights would then be resold by travel agents as part of packages for profit, as lets face it, with that many cheap seats you could easily recover your costs with just a small number of people purchasing the resold seats from you.
I was on several flights where there was 189 passengers booked only for the plane to be half empty. Research showed that the majority of people who were not arriving were all those who had the cheapest cost flights. Also on some flights it was the same names coming up again and again that never turned out, most likely fake names used by the travel agents over and over again on flights they intended to resell - all it meant is the people who actually wanted to fly on the cheap flights never got them because they were bought up by travel agents as in investment.
In any case, name corrections or typing errors are fixed free of charge, all you need to do is to phone up the reservations line to change the name on the ticket and they can do it no problem. This is the case for things such as missing middle names, mis-spaced names, incorrect punctuation, and typing or spelling errors. If you want to change the name totally you need to pay.
(DublinPole : I hope you don't mind me using your text - if you do, please send me a PM)
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