Non-refundable tickets. Bad idea?

[Al Drake]

long standing policy - no name changes on tickets --- what name is her passport in --- if her passport is the same name as the ticket -- no problem --- if not --- MAYBE a certified marriage certificate might help - one with the raised seal

ticket name and passport name need to match --- you won't even make it through TSA if it doesn't - i know folks turned away at the ticket counter --- no boarding pass

otherwise rut ro . . .

She made another call since my first post and it seems to get even more complicated. Now there is another issue about my name showing with my middle initial on the ticket and my full name on the passport. Now my wife is worried about being required to purchase 2 new tickets. This second person says there may not be a problem as long as we arrive early and have our birth certificates and marriage license. The marriage license is a simple document issued in Jamaica in 1996. Does not look like any more than something that could be crafter by a middle school student. No embossed seal. This second individual seems to expect us to just take our chances. She also asked another woman somewhere near her and that is what they came up with for a solution. She also said there might be an out as the take off time has been changed but doesn't convince me to show up without some other resolution. We plan to drive to the airport this Saturday to see what we can find out.

I take that back. I just looked again and can see/feel a very faint stamped seal.