Guy Changes Name To Avoid Ryanair Fee

Reason it was £220 fee - he made 2 separate bookings. @CraigTPA - in the UK you can use any name you like so long as it's not for an illegal purpose. So this guy can continue to have his passport as Adam West for the remainder of his life, while the rest of his official documents can remain in his "real" name. I'm currently in that situation having changed my name when I got married in Quebec 5 years ago - my passport if still in my "maiden" name but everything else is in my new name. I'll keep it like that til I need to renew my passport, and then can just change it in the passport to married name at no cost other than regular passport renewal fee. As you can do all the "officialdom" yourself it's fantastically easy to do.

Even within the US, the most common state age of consent is 16 (with some states at 17 and a few at 18), but the laws may also be written to only allow someone under a certain age to only consent with other persons in the same general age group - for example, one typical restriction is for people between 16 and 18 to only be able to consent with someone 19 or younger. The laws can also take into account whether or not the people in question had a relationship that started before the older of the two turned 18. The practical idea is to not create a situation where between two people who started a relationship in high school or early in college to be exposed to a statutory rape charge. Then there's consent within marriage combined with legal marriage age with parental consent overriding all this, but that's another issue entirely. Yes, there are moments federalism is annoying to those who like their laws tidy.... But back to the subject at hand, even if he just doesn't bother to change - or just doesn't have - a driver's license, school registration, etc., isn't the new Adam West going to have to shell out another 103 pounds to change his passport back? That'd leave him only 14 pounds - and a little spectacularly useless publicity in one of the English speaking world's less reputable newspapers - to the good. Well, and the satisfaction of sticking it to Ryanair, but still...14 quid? That isn't even a decent night's bar tab in Ibiza, or anywhere other than an Asda car park for that matter. Of course, he could just stay Adam West...

@robert smith @brian l You might want to google "age of consent", Not every place in the world has the same laws as the US states you 2 probably live in. Spain is 13 now will be raised to 16 July 1.

@Robert Smith - he was going with his girlfriend and her family, so there's nothing that odd about it. Ibiza is a common family holiday destination for we Brits as well as a clubbers' paradise. To answer Ben's question - it is very easy here in the UK to change one's name legally, incredibly easy in fact. He would though have to change his new passport back into his original name and that would of course have a financial cost. Maybe he's planning to be Adam West for the duration of the new passport - 10 years?

@Adam The answer to your question is very simple; Ticket scalping. If not you could earn a lot of money by buying tickets when airlines have sales and then resell on web forums close to the date of travel.