Airline ticket with old international passport, flight with new one

What to do if you bought an airline ticket with an old international passport, but your flight is with a new one? I think many have faced a similar situation, and today we will try to clarify everything.

First, let's reiterate the general document requirements when booking airline tickets:

• If the flight is within Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus, you can buy a ticket on Kupi.com using your internal or international passport, or a birth certificate (for children under 14). You present these same documents at check-in.
• If the flight is abroad, you buy the ticket using your international passport.

Now let's look at specific cases...

You buy a ticket on Kupi.com in advance, and your current international passport is about to expire

Answer: Book your ticket using your old passport. The main thing is to ensure that the spelling of your first and last name is the same in both the old and new passports. When booking airline tickets, the passport number is usually not required. If the carrier does require this information, enter the old passport number. Upon receiving your new passport, you can contact the airline or the agent from whom you purchased the ticket, and they will add a remark with the new data. If the spelling of your first and/or last name in the new passport does not match the ticket, we recommend contacting the airline directly with this question. Many carriers allow up to 3 errors in the passenger's first and last name (which do not affect pronunciation, for example, Alexey instead of Aleksey or Sergey instead of Sergei), but I repeat, many, but not all. Some airlines require a complete match of the first and last name and only allow data changes for an additional fee. In any case, we recommend taking both passports, old and new, to check-in or requesting that the spelling of the name in the new passport matches the old one.

You buy an international airline ticket when your international passport is not yet ready

Answer: As we wrote above, the main thing is that the first and last names match. The passport number is usually not important to the airline. However, when receiving your passport, it would not hurt to add a remark to the booking. If you don't know how your last name will be spelled in Latin letters, we suggest reading the article on transliteration in our blog.

After purchasing the ticket, a woman got married and changed her last name

Answer: You must contact the airline regarding this issue. Some carriers (again, some, but not all) allow purchasing an airline ticket with an old international passport and flying with a new one. In such cases, you must bring your marriage certificate, new passport, and the passport used for booking the ticket, or your internal passport with a note about the previously issued international passport, to check-in. If the flight is from abroad, these documents must be translated into English and notarized.

List of documents that can be used to buy and fly on domestic flights within Russia:

• internal passport
• international passport
• diplomatic passport
• service passport
• seaman's passport (seafarer's identity document)
• birth certificate for persons under 14 years of age
• certificate of a member of the Federation Council or a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly
• military ID of a serviceman of the Russian Federation (for officers, warrant officers, and midshipmen)
• military ID for soldiers, sailors, sergeants, and petty officers serving by conscription or contract
• certificate of release from places of detention - for persons released from places of detention
• certificate issued to a convicted person who has received permission for a long-term or short-term departure from places of detention
• temporary identity card issued to a citizen of the Russian Federation by internal affairs bodies upon loss or replacement of a passport
• national passport
• residence permit.