American Airlines is a prestigious airline that presents a lot of options and services that other airlines do not provide to its customers. One of these services includes Changing the name on your tickets policy. The changing of names on a ticket means changing the name of an entirely different person. And this is not included in American Airlines Name Change policy. You cannot change the name on your ticket entirely. 

However, American Airlines offers to make amendments to your name on the ticket. These amendments may be a change of name to match government-required documents, a spelling mistake, a change to gender or marital status.

Whatever these changes may be American Airlines offers to make minor and major corrections. Let’s have a look at the detailed ‘Name Change Policy’. Also, followed by a discussion of the procedure to make changes to passengers’ names on American Airlines tickets.

The ‘Name Change Policy’ of American Airlines:

American Airlines, first and foremost, is not allowed to change the name to a different person. However, it allows changes to names under two categories including major name changes and minor name changes.

Note that these corrections are only applicable on validated (001) unused tickets.

Major Name Changes:

Major name changes apply to the ‘R’ inventory or Airline Prime flight tickets for itineraries. Or a major name change is done when a name change requires a new PNR.

Major name changes are not free of charge. Customers must pay 25 dollars to make changes to their tickets. These charges may vary depending on the flight route taken to reach the desired destination.

The name is changed on a new PNR to match the TSA-required document. Major name changes may take some time so make any changes required 24 hours before your flight’s departure.

Minor Name Changes:

Minor name changes are only available for a journey that includes American Eagle flights and American Prime. These changes do not require much alternation as they can be done to the same PNR issued before.

Under minor name changes, there cannot be any changes to the date of the flight. However, American Airlines does not charge any fee to its travelers for minor name changes.

These changes can be made as many times as required as long as gender or date of birth is not altered,

Infant Name Change Policy:

 American Airlines has a name-change policy for infants too. It can be altered even when the itinerary contains other airline segments. For a lap infant, the name changes are made on the same PNR as for the adult.

However, for a separate seat the infant’s name is corrected on a new PNR along with the adult accompanying the infant. No charges are applied to the infant’s name changes.

How to Change or Correct Name on American Airlines Ticket:

 There are various methods through which you can make name changes on the passenger ticket through American Airlines.

Customer Service:

To make any name changes to passengers you can contact American Airlines customer service. Then follow the IVRS instructions to have a live call with an employee. The employee will instruct you through the name change process. He will guide you on what documents you require to make changes and how these changes are made. However, it is not a very time-efficient method and may take up to many days.

Chat With a Live Agent:

Another method to make required name changes on a ticket is to talk with a live agent on the official website of American Airlines. Or the chat can be done through the app of American Airlines. They may help you with your luggage problems or any other issues

 along with guiding you through the process to make the desired name changes to your reservation. Once you enter your question, the agent will reply to you within no time. It is a quick and time-saving method.

Online Application:

The easiest way to make name changes to your ticket through A, American Airlines is to submit an online application. You can follow the mentioned steps:

1. Open the official website of American Airlines and sign in to your account.
2. Then go to the ‘ manage booking ‘ option. Enter the PNR number.
3. Now, select American Airlines reservations and then proceed with the ‘ Flight Change’ button,
4. The name change option will be then visible to you and after making the necessary changes they will guide you if the name changes are under the major or minor name changes category.
5. You will have to request a new reference number for major name changes.
6. At last, you will have your ticket reissued with the desired name corrections.

 Airport Desk:

 You can directly visit the airport desk to make name changes to your ticket but that will take you a whole day.

Thus, this was some necessary information that you needed to know for making name changes to your ticket if you are flying through American Airlines.