Why do Ryanair charge so much for a name change?

Fees will be applied to changes made outside of the 24-hour grace period. The name-change fee is a preventative measure to discourage and prevent unauthorised online travel agents from 'screenscraping' Ryanair's cheapest fares and reselling them on to unwitting consumers at hugely inflated costs.



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So if you need to change your RyanAir trip, contact them as soon as possible! A separate change fee applies if you wish to change the name on a ticket and bring another person with you. Depending on when you apply for the name change, you will need to pay between $130 and $180.

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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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If airline tickets could be transferred from one passenger to another, it would create a secondary market for tickets that would undermine the airline industry's entire business model, which is to discount advance-purchase fares bought by tourists and raise the price of a tickets typically bought by business travelers.

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Yes. The name submitted on your airline reservation must be an exact match to the name you provided on your application. If you use a frequent flyer account or online travel profile, ensure that your name is properly saved.

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You can update your personal information by logging in to your 'myRyanair' account and editing your personal information.

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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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Even though your boarding pass may not match your government-issued ID (i.e. your middle name is not on it), if your passenger information is correct, there will not be a problem. Bottom Line: Even if you forget to put your middle name in when booking your ticket, chances are there will be no issues when flying.

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If you've misspelled your middle name when booking your flight, you likely don't need to do anything at all. Airlines rely most heavily on passengers' first and last names. Some airlines don't print middle names on boarding passes even when it was included with the booking.

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The name you provide is used to perform watch list matching before a boarding pass is issued, so small differences should not impact your travel. Yes, you can travel. However make sure that the Boarding Pass name is correct and matches your ID as much as possible.

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Yes. However, you will have to pay our name change fee. You may not change the name if one of the flights has already departed. See our Table of Fees.

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No, it does not matter at all.

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Yes, but the passport must have been issued within the last 15 years. In addition, you must have the passport in your possession, it cannot be damaged, you must have been age 16 or older when the passport was issued, and it must have been issued in your current name or you must show legal proof of your name change.

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