Domestic flight non-transferrable ticket

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#277276 5-Oct-2020 13:23

My work mate purchased a domestic AirNZ ticket in his name, but has had some plans change.

With electronic check-in and all, would anyone notice if his daughter used the ticket instead?

Flying ex-Hamilton on a turbo-prop, so no security check.

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#2579544 5-Oct-2020 13:31

would anyone notice if his daughter used the ticket instead?

While there is no security check ( but they don't look at your ticket anyway)

Its quite possible that at scanning in at the gate or on entry to the plane that a crew member would notice a difference between his daughter and the "Mr" name on the ticket....

Air NZ take a very dim view of this....

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#2579545 5-Oct-2020 13:32

Self-assist scan at the gate. Welcome Mr... errr, hang on...

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#2579547 5-Oct-2020 13:44

The issue will be boarding the plane and when they scan the boarding pass at the gate

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#2579556 5-Oct-2020 14:05

Simple answer is yes, people could notice. Check-in may be electronic but the process of boarding involves two physical checks of the ticket at the gate and boarding the plane.

I have a friend who has been pulled from a flight after boarding with a ticket for somebody else (in this case a male traveling on a female's ticket)

With every ticket being refundable now you can just take the credit and buy a few flight.

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#2580086 6-Oct-2020 13:59

I don't think it would matter? His daughter could just say her father booked the ticket for herself and that Air NZ CS said it was fine and no name change was needed or something like that.

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#2580087 6-Oct-2020 14:00

NPCtom:

I don't think it would matter? His daughter could just say her father booked the ticket for herself and that Air NZ CS said it was fine and no name change was needed or something like that.

That would not work, You would be not allowed to board or removed off the plane

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#2580098 6-Oct-2020 14:18

DONT travel under someone else's name, this is an Aviation Safety risk

Also its a contract breech, when purchasing a ticket the Airline is contacted to carry the named individual from point A to point B

I point this out any time someone try's to "sell" a ticket on the Vic Deals Facebook Group

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#2580127 6-Oct-2020 15:17

I'm sorry, but I don't see any plausible way of terming it a safety risk.

It's against the rules for sure, and there is a good chance that you could get pulled off the flight, but the plane isn't going to crash because of it.

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#2580128 6-Oct-2020 15:17

NPCtom:

I don't think it would matter? His daughter could just say her father booked the ticket for herself and that Air NZ CS said it was fine and no name change was needed or something like that.

It will matter. If you are questioned it means you've been caught out, and simply will NOT be allowed to fly if caught out using somebody else's ticket. You will be removed from the flight and if you want to travel will need to purchase a ticket on a later flight.

Making up a lie like that is go good because everybody knows it is not the truth (Air NZ would never say it is fine), and will potentially just make the situation a lot worse.

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#2580145 6-Oct-2020 15:57

Surely an organisation with Rainbow Tick accreditation would not prohibit a passenger from using their preferred name and gender, irrespective of what their legal documentation may state?

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#2580158 6-Oct-2020 16:30

andrewNZ: I'm sorry, but I don't see any plausible way of terming it a safety risk.

It's against the rules for sure, and there is a good chance that you could get pulled off the flight, but the plane isn't going to crash because of it.

The plane goes down, the Airline thinks we have this passenger in this seat

The Airline notifies the family X "sorry for your loss" , The Airline then realises that's not the person in that seat and then has to open an investigation

this is just bad and irresponsible

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#2580216 6-Oct-2020 17:25

Unless you want to end up potentially on a no fly list, or in serious trouble with the police/caa do *not* do this.

Tickets are refundable for credit right now. Do that. It's legal, simpler and far far less risky.

There are so many ways this could go wrong, it surely couldn't be worth the cost of buying a ticket anyway?

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#2580233 6-Oct-2020 18:32

We also don't know how old daughter is, so depending on age could also be a classed as unaccompanied minor.

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#2580250 6-Oct-2020 19:36

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Surely an organisation with Rainbow Tick accreditation would not prohibit a passenger from using their preferred name and gender, irrespective of what their legal documentation may state?

Yes they would. Your legal documentation must match PNR records, end of story.

At this point on 99% of global airlines on a PNR your sex is either M or F. IATA announced changes to introduce a 3rd category ('X') in early 2019 and very slowly a handful of airlines are adopting this. There are huge challenges to overcome before this will be the norm, particularly with international travel.