Ryanair said themselves it would cost 110. He thought he had to change both names cos they were on same booking.

It use to be €25. I had to do it once. I think it was €25 for return too.

Its €110 in total, your changing the name on the booking not each of the tickets, once the name in the booking is changed the tickets update automatically.

Provided its not two separate booking references.

I think it was more his ticket there and back that made it 220

Costs them €50 sorry (€30 + €20 name change)

Sorry my maths is messed up

I buy flight €10
Wait until flight goes up to €80
Sell for €30
Person pays name change fee of €20 (if Ryanair had a €20 name change)

My profit = €30 – €10 = €20
Their saving = €80 – €30 – €20 = €30

Go home you’re drunk ☺

hmmm you could try -but the person with the same name would also require to want to fly from the same location to the same destination at the same time you booked for – if ya think that through its probably not a great money spinner of an idea !!

What if I bought every seat on a Friday night plane to London?

Amazing how people don’t get Alan’s and Ryanair’s explanation. If name change was cheap, dealer would buy the cheap tickets way in advance and then by the time you have the money for your holiday, family and friends arranged, days off from work organaised, (like Ibiza, price is nothing if you booked early feb-march for the summer, and then go crazy from may on for the same period), Ryanair would not have anymore cheap tickets but you could still buy them cheap from dealers who bought them way before you had the idea to travel. Why would you need the same name as bookings made for if you could change it cheap???? Dealers would make profit not Ryanair. Ryanair would go bankrupt. You can hate Ryanair as much as you want but many of us NEED it, and happy with service for the price they charge.

The name change is free, it’s the passport that costs money. If he just waits for the current one to expire, no extra cost

Did you read the article? he said he will change his name back when his passport expires.

@goo Was just thinking the same thing …. Ryanair should give this student a job ….. thinking outside the box …… love it!

David,

If I was to elaborate I’d be here all day.

But just taking this instance, a £220 charge for something that should be free sums this company up.
It’s no skin off their nose to change the name. None whatsoever.

Changing a typo should be free, yes. But changing a forename or surname should not be free, as you can effectively transfer the flight to someone else (someone with the same first name or last name as you).

It is free to change errors within the first 24 hours after booking

The large fee is to stop people booking flights far in advance (for example, flights to England during the Rugby World Cup) and then selling them on later, as far as I’m aware. All airlines do it

I take your points lads, but £220 is far too much. €50 is too much.

She’s right, it costs them the price it takes for two minutes of an employees time. Nothing lose to 220

She’s a he Ailbhe :)

You don’t seem to get it. There is effectively no cost involved for Ryanair whatsoever to change the name on your ticket. As has already been said, this only exists as a deterrent from an effective secondary market for airline tickets being created by people buying flights for a certain time when they think they stand a chance of making a profit by selling them at a higher price at a later stage. This is the only reason for this charge being so high. In a case like this of a genuine mistake, admittedly it is a hard pill to swallow but to make exceptions in cases like this would be impossible. People’s cynical nature ensures if this cost was , say €20 instead for example, you can be guaranteed that a secondary airline ticket market on the likes of Donedeal would begin to exist immediately.

Quite rightly, Ryanair see this would be damaging to their business model and would drive up the costs for everyone so they rightly ensure it doesn’t exist by insisting on this fee for a name change.

As for your generic go at Ryanair in your original post, pity you didn’t do your research and realise that other airlines also look for the same comparatively high charges for a name change on a ticket, so by your logic all effectively all airlines must be “horrible companies”

All airlines are disgusting. Air travel should be free for everybody. Air travel is a basic human right. Next thing this corrupt government will be taxing flying birds. The sooner this government is overthrown the better.

Or what a flute someone who thinks he is batman is?

Aer finglas had the same charge in the 90s when Shannon to Heathrow would cost you £300 per seat

€20 to change the name might be acceptable but over €200 isn’t.

£220 to click on a name in their booking system, press backspace a few times and type in the new name???

A typo is rectified very easily, but changing a surname/firstname (which is the case here) discourages people from booking a flight for themselves and passing it onto a friend/spouse for example.

There are costs involved.

Lots of business moguls on here that don’t understand the simple fact that staff require wages.

Someone has to be paid not just to make the change, but to be available to make the change. Therefor a yearly salary must be accounted for.

Most businesses would spread the cost of employing that person across all of their customers. Ryanair don’t, they charge low prices. When someone makes a mistake they pay. Why? because it costs money to run a business.

Damn that ryanair, how dare they not charge me for other peoples mistakes.

The fee seems more like a deterrent than money grab.
I can see how a higher charge would prevent third-party sellers from purchasing for peak times well in advance and charging a premium plus a nominal fee to change the name. Imagine some unscrupulous group buying blocks of tickets for every bank holiday weekend at the minute bookings are available.

and are these staff paid £220 per 5 minutes? I’m pretty sure it would take less than that. I changed the name on my Aer Lingus flight in January, a week before the flight. The charge? €0.00

Funny cause Aer Lingus charge €120 per name change, you must have known someone or had a good excuse

Just called their reservation number and told them what happened.

and as in this case it was just one of the names.

Wouldn’t you have paid more to fly with Aer Lingus though? Generally their flights are more expensive.

You got lucky so, i’ve also heard of people getting name changes done free of charge with Ryanair too, depends on who you get/what mood they are in I suppose

€125 return to Malaga with suitcase.

@Dave O Keeffe,

Do you get paid per 5 minute contract?

Most people don’t. Most people have contracts that require them to be in work and available to perform functions.

I think you might be making a ridicules argument and ignoring what I actually typed.

Read. The. Article.

David Evans, read the article. The name change was free. The passport is what cost him.