When Adam Armstrong was faced with a $336 administration fee to change his name on a Ryanair ticket, he decided it would be cheaper to pay the $135 to legally change his name. Adam Armstrong's girlfriend’s father mistakenly reserved a seat to Ibiza for him with Ryanair under the name Adam West. The man just happened to see Armstrong's name as "Adam West" on Facebook and thought that was his actual surname. Armstrong, however, had put the name of the actor from Batman on Facebook as a joke. When he approached Ryanair about changing the name on his ticket, that's when he found out they demanded a fee for deleting one name and typing in another. Several airlines charge more than $100 to make minor changes to bookings. That's when Armstrong got the idea to just change his last name — which cost him nothing — and pay the lesser fee for a new passport. The 19-year-old made the trip from his home in Manchester, England, to Liverpool, some 35 miles away, and obtained a rush passport in his new name. A statement from Ryanair said: “Customers are asked to ensure that the details they enter at the time of booking are correct before completing their booking and we offer a 24-hour grace period to correct minor booking errors. A name change fee is charged in order to discourage and prevent unauthorized online travel agents from ‘screen scraping' Ryanair’s cheapest fares and reselling them to unwitting consumers at hugely inflated costs.” Screen scraping is the act of extracting information from one webpage to be used on another.
