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DISCLOSING CANCELLATION POLICIES AND OTHER INFORMATION

One of our aims is to provide you with a seamless journey from the time you make your booking right through to when you touch down and collect your baggage. In order to do this, we try to provide you with as much information as possible about the policies and procedures that may affect your travel including:

Booking policies and mistakes

We understand that occasionally booking errors occur and if you make a booking on our own website you can make name or date amendments within 24 hours of the booking being made for a charge of £30 per amendment. (You can't transfer a ticket to a completely different person though and date changes are subject to availability in the same fare class, any difference in fare will be either collected or refunded). Likewise if during the booking process our system causes you to make and pay for a duplicate flight, we will issue a full refund of the duplicate flight without any charge, providing you tell us within 24 hours of the booking being made and subsequently provide us with your credit or debit card statement. These amendments can only be made by calling our contact centre.

For security reasons it is absolutely essential that the name on your booking, ticket and passport are exactly the same. If they are not you will be unable to board the flight. This applies to every passenger so when you are making your booking either through a travel agent or direct with us via our website or contact centre it's a good idea to have all the passports with you. The person that you’ve known as John all your life may be called Jack in his passport. And Jane may be spelt Jayne.

Your booking and ticket must reflect your first and last names only. Middle names are not required. This rule also applies to marriage or maiden names. We can no longer allow passengers to travel by accepting marriage certificates or decree absolutes in conjunction with a passport.

If a mistake has been made we will allow you to amend the name to reflect the correct spelling in the passport, up to 2 hours before the flight is due to depart. However you cannot transfer the ticket to another person.

If you have booked through a travel agent, please call them to change the name, or if you have booked through our website or over the phone, you can call our Contact Centre. There will be a charge of £30 to amend each name.

Cancellation policies and other important information
When you book your flight directly from us, upon request our contact centre people can advise you:


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