Air India Name Change Policy

Air India allows you to: 

• Correct misspellings to your name to ensure it matches the name on your passport or driver’s license.
• Make changes to your name if you get married or divorced after booking your ticket. In such a scenario, you will be required to provide valid documentary evidence. Your ticket will have to be reissued under your new name for a fee. 

Assign/transfer your ticket to another passenger if your Air India flight within India was cancelled or disrupted due to COVID-19 between March 15, 2020, and August 24, 2020. The validity of such tickets has been automatically extended till December 31, 2021.

To make a name change or modify a name on an Air India flight ticket, you must call +1-844-933-2065 (toll-free in the U.S./Canada) or the local Air India office in your country or city. You cannot make name changes or corrections to flight tickets online.

Air India allows you to correct misspellings so that your name appears correctly on your ticket and matches the name on your passport, driver’s license, or other valid ID. You can also make a name change if you get married or divorced after booking your ticket, subject to presenting proper documentary evidence and paying the required charges for getting your ticket reissued. 

Air India was earlier allowing passengers to transfer their tickets to other passengers if the ticket was issued between March 15, 2020, and August 24, 2020, for a domestic flight that was cancelled or disrupted due to COVID (such tickets are valid till December 31, 2021).

Air India allows name corrections due to misspellings (for free) and name changes due to marriage, divorce, adoption, etc., as long as you can back it with valid documentary proof—such as a marriage certificate, divorce decree, court papers, etc. The latter may entail reissuing your ticket/PNR, in which case you may be charged the applicable fee, depending on your fare type and route.

If the name on your Air India ticket is misspelled, you must immediately contact the Air India office in your city/country and point out the error. You may be asked to produce a valid copy of your ID papers as proof.

No, you’re no longer allowed to transfer/assign your Air India ticket to someone else. This was briefly permitted earlier for domestic flight tickets issued between March 15, 2020, and August 24, 2020, that were cancelled or disrupted because of COVID. However, the validity of such tickets expired on December 31, 2021.

You can change (i.e., correct) a passenger’s name after booking your flight as long as it does not amount to a change of passenger. If you’ve legally changed your name due to marriage, divorce, etc., after purchasing your ticket, you will be required to produce your marriage certificate, divorce decree, etc., as evidence of name change and your ticket may need to be reissued (for a fee).

You can correct your Air India ticket spelling mistake by contacting the Air India office in your city/country—you can’t make name corrections online through the website.

You can update the following personal information by logging in to your account and then selecting My Account from the menu: 

• Personal details 
• Credit card details
• Your travel preferences 

Once the above details are saved to your profile, you won’t have to enter them every time you log into your account to make a flight booking from the website.