Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshub1.kdd1.nap.home.ne.jp!news.home.ne.jp!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!tm From: tm Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Airline Ticket Disaster :-/ Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:23:55 +0900 Organization: Oort Cloud Lines: 26 Distribution: nogoogle Message-ID: References: <1134100927.669204.22340@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1134103833.267181.113510@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 237.pool3.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1134106059 29789 165.76.163.237 (9 Dec 2005 05:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 05:27:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) X-No-Archive: yes Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:30696 john@rarebooksinjapan.com wrote: > MonkeyBoy wrote: > >I purchasted two "discount" airline tickets for a flight back to the > >US. At the time I reserved the tickets my wife's passport had her > >maiden name on it, so that's the name that got used. Well, you > >probably know where this is going. Her passport expired during the > >interim and the new passport has her new surname on it. > > If that was the name on her passport at the time the ticket was issued > that was the right name to book the ticket in. That's what they asked > for, wasn't it? Her name as it appeared in her passport at the time of > booking? Some companies even want a fax or photocopy of the passport > before taking the booking, and you can't give a photocopy of a passport > that hasn't been issued yet. > > Take the old passport with you when you go to check in. Take the > documentation from the city hall proving she changed her name, for good > measure. Get an embassy-stamped English translation of that document if > it needs to be shown for your return from the US to Japan. I doubt very > much that there'll be any fuss about this, and if there is tell them > you'll take it to court. I'm pretty sure they'd lose if it came to > that. Your argument has merit, but the keyword in MonkeyBoy's post is "discount".