[MYOB]

Originally Posted by dubdaymo

More scaremongering. I go through Gatwick regularly (including last week) and my passport never comes out of my pocket until I reach the EI or FR gates.

So how, precisely, do you get through the airport security agent doing exit verification *in front* of the EI/FR ground handlers? Vault the barrier?

You may not have noticed the uniform, but its airport security who check your ID at the gate - not the airline, unless they decide they want to as well. Hence the different people checking the ID and scanning the boarding passes.

[BuffyBot]

That's generally airline staff/their contracted ground handling agents...

[MYOB]

Originally Posted by BuffyBot

That's generally airline staff/their contracted ground handling agents...

Not in LGW South Terminal (the one used by FR and EI) its not. Have you used it?

The entry to security is done using automatic gates, like in DUB T1. Then there is a security staff member who checks ID and verifies the photograph taken at the security entrance *before you get to the airline staff at the gate*.

The airline staff frequently do no bother checking ID at all - so its not the airline you deal with for this part, its Gatwick Airport.

[ballooba]

Originally Posted by murphaph

What happens if you inadvertently use the wrong version of the same person's name (say they have the Irish version in their passport and you book using the English name)?

I often book flights for a friend in Berlin with no CC. He has an unusual name and what we call him is not his "passport name".

It would be a correction for the same person but the entire name would look different (like someone else).

I have this very problem with work booked travel sometimes. I ask Ryanair to add my legal name, as long as I don't take away my middle (given) name it's free.

[dubdaymo]

Originally Posted by MYOB

but its airport security who check your ID at the gate

'fraid not. The airport security agent who checks the photo does not check your ID (passport). The check of your ID is done by Servisair agents (on behalf of Ryanair) at the second set of desks just like Ryanair staff do at Dublin gates. The same agents will often insist on passengers putting their "shopping" into their case so they have only one carry-on. On one occasion I was there when a nasty woman who had been stopped demanded to see a Ryanair rep and the agent told her, quite bluntly, that he was acting for Ryanair and was "the boss".
So, that's why, when it is time to board from the gate lounge, no further checks need to be done until you enter the aircraft and present your boarding pass.

[MYOB]

Originally Posted by dubdaymo

'fraid not. The airport security agent who checks the photo does not check your ID (passport). The check of your ID is done by Servisair agents (on behalf of Ryanair) at the second set of desks just like Ryanair staff do at Dublin gates. The same agents will often insist on passengers putting their "shopping" into their case so they have only one carry-on. On one occasion I was there when a nasty woman who had been stopped demanded to see a Ryanair rep and the agent told her, quite bluntly, that he was acting for Ryanair and was "the boss".
So, that's why, when it is time to board from the gate lounge, no further checks need to be done until you enter the aircraft and present your boarding pass.

Last number of times I've used LGW, the airport security agent checks ID and not the (Menzies, I believe, for EI) ground handling agents; and I use LGW rather more than I'd like to. The same applies at quite a few other airports internationally so it is completely unsafe to assume that you are only going to be subject to an ID check by your airline.

The issue here anyway is resolved - the OP got their name corrected on it rather than attempt to fly with an incorrect name.

[Nonoperational]

Originally Posted by MYOB

With Ryanair? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Pay the name change fee or risk not being allowed boarding.

Pretty unhelpful post and shown to be complete nonsense. Correcting a typo is not a name change.

[Talent]

My common name differs from passport (like Paddy instead of Patrick) and I've twice had to fork out the name change fee. In each case booking was made by another person.