Surname change during trip and flight

eDicky

IBlameGordonB wrote: »

they checked her in without even a question. Thank you Virgin Atlantic :-)

Hah - thanks for letting us know - may have been a good day for you to buy a lottery ticket too...

photome

Voyager2002 wrote: »

A great result!

Did she show them her marriage certificate, or did the people at check-in simply not notice that the name in the passport differed from that on the ticket?

I asked myself that, but didnt post, would be good if OP answered

Reggie_Rebel

I don't understand this.

Your wife is Jane Doe, her tickets say Jane Doe, her UK passport says Jane Doe.

What's the problem of travelling on her UK passport on the return leg?

Voyager2002

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

I don't understand this.

Your wife is Jane Doe, her tickets say Jane Doe, her UK passport says Jane Doe.

What's the problem of travelling on her UK passport on the return leg?

Try reading the OP to find out...

DTDfanBoy

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

I don't understand this.

Your wife is Jane Doe, her tickets say Jane Doe, her UK passport says Jane Doe.

What's the problem of travelling on her UK passport on the return leg?

Well presumably she doesn't have a UK passport as Ne'e wouldn't be used on one unless she had actually incorporated it into her legal name.

Apparently her new passport now states Jane, Middle Name, Smith Ne'e Doe, and the airline were happy that it was close enough

IBlameGordonB

Yes the passport shows her surname as Smith nee Jones so a marriage certificate wouldn't add new info. The thing is, you couldn't have booked the ticket with the surname "Smith nee Jones" anyway, so you couldn't make the booking match the passport.

I don't believe the check-in staff "didn't notice", more likely they accepted that both the first and last name on the booking were shown on the passport, simples :-)