Nineteen year old Adam Armstrong managed to save himself £117, changing his name for free and then rushing through a new passport which cost him £103, after the no-frills airline wanted to charge him to change the name on his ticket.

The stepdad of Armstrong’s girlfriend had booked him a ticket to Ibiza, but under the wrong name after he copied the student’s Facebook page.

Armstrong told The Sun: “Her stepdad got my name from Facebook but I had put it as Adam West as a joke, because he was the actor who played Batman on TV”.

Ryanair wanted to charge £220 to alter the ticket to Ibiza, which would have been twice the cost of the flight.

It said name-changing fees were applied to prevent people from selling-on tickets for a profit.

A spokesperson for Ryanair added: “Customers are asked to ensure that the details they enter at the time of booking are correct before completing their booking and we offer a 24-hour ‘grace period’ to correct minor booking errors.

“A name change fee is charged in order to discourage and prevent unauthorised online travel agents from ‘screenscraping’ Ryanair’s cheapest fares and reselling them on to unwitting consumers at hugely inflated costs.”