Originally Posted by
DeltaDiamond
True - but it will still be a re-issue, because (I'm guessing here) that it's not an electronic ticket, but a paper ticket. If it is a paper ticket, it'll have to be re-printed and if it has to be re-printed, they will call it a re-issue. A ticket agent can make the change at check-in before he/she prints the actual boarding pass. Or, if it is an e-ticket, you can still have the ticket agent correct and reprint it it at check-in. The boarding pass is just as good as the ticket when the Malta officials are comparing documents. But hey, call em' and see what they say. I just wouldn't pay a fee to change something that is not going to matter in the end.
This is Ryanair. Ryanair doesn't do paper tickets.
And it's a flight TO Maita, not FROM Malta. We don't actually know where from.
And I disagree with previous advice. If the passenger were a citizen of a European Union country then there might be a reasonable chance of getting away with this. But the passenger is a non-EU citizen who has to go to the Document Check desk before being allowed to board, and the Document Check desk will look at the documents quite carefully and I think it is quite likely that they will make the OP's girlfriend buy another ticket - at the highest available fare, and quite possibly on a different flight (if the original one is full). This is Ryanair, after all.
I wouldn't take any risks. And as the cost of phoning Ryanair's premium line number is probably going to end up being the same as the cost of a new ticket I'd just buy a new ticket.