Can you reassign a plane ticket to someone else?

Yes, you can buy transferable airline tickets. However, most airlines do not offer transferable tickets and only sell non-transferable flights. The majority of transferable flight tickets are offered by low-cost airlines, such as the airlines that are listed above.



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Airline tickets can only be sold if they are able to be transferred to someone else's name. Contact your travel agent, broker, or the airline to ask a customer service representative if your tickets are transferrable if you are unsure.

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Most of the airlines do not offer transferable tickets. However, few airlines that are considered low-cost airlines offer transferable tickets. Transferring a ticket from one person to another person always costs a fee. You will have to pay a name change fee to the airlines if transferring your ticket to someone else.

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In some cases, you can make changes to your itinerary with no fee. Every major U.S. airline (except Southwest Airlines) typically charges penalty fees to change or cancel an economy fare flight. The fees, however, can vary from as low as $75 on a domestic flight to more than $400 on an international flight.

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In order to legally sell an airline ticket, it must be transferrable, meaning that the airline will change the ticket from your name to someone else's. Transferrable tickets can be sold through classified or auction websites as well as third-party marketplace sites.

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What's really happening is that airlines want to control their revenue. In the days when you could transfer tickets, consolidators would scoop up the cheap ones and resell them, negating the airline's ability to move the ticket price around as demand ebbed and flowed.

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We allow name changes on all bookings. Full name changes can be made online up to 24 hours before scheduled departure, or by contacting us or at the airport up to 2 hours before scheduled departure subject to a fee, see our table of fees.

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Some airlines allow one free correction per ticket. Others will charge a “correction fee” or a “change fee” that can range from $50 to $200. If you wind up cancelling your flight and rebooking it under your new name, there might be charges as well. Airlines also differ in terms of the conditions for name changes.

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When Can You Transfer a Plane Ticket to Someone Else? To transfer your plane ticket, you're required to cancel the original ticket and pay the cancelation fee and the ticket issued for the same location will be rebooked. You can make such changes when the booking is done in advance.

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You can get a full flight ticket refund only if you booked a refundable ticket. However, airline ticket refund rules vary from airline to airline. Thus, it is better to refer to the airline's website or contact it directly for possible airfare reimbursement.

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A simple way to change or cancel a flight without paying a fee is to do so within 24 hours of booking. After this window, the next option is to wait to see if the airline makes a change to the flight — the departure time, the aircraft, etc. — which will automatically grant you a refund if you change or cancel.

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Yes, you can make changes to your flight up until 10 minutes before scheduled departure time, even if you've already checked in. If you're changing to a flight within 24 hours, be sure to check in for your new flight after you make the change.

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Although every airline has a different policy, many airlines will allow you to cancel flight tickets within 24 hours and give you a refund, even if you've bought a non-refundable airline ticket. If you've bought an airline ticket and want to cancel it on the same day, you can do so easily via 'Manage my booking'.

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Making changes to your booking
You can change the name of a passenger on a booking to someone else by paying a Name Change Fee. These are clearly listed in Fees and Charges. It's cheaper to make changes on our website or via our mobile app (this must be done at least 2 hours before departure).

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So, if you find you need to change your RyanAir travel, contact them as soon as possible! A separate change cost applies if you wish to alter the name on a ticket and bring someone else with you. Depending on when you request for the name change, you'll need to pay between $130 and $180.

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