Originally Posted by Cyrano
So for this problem scenario to happen, Mr Foxile and Miss X have to buy tickets (in their unmarried names) sometime before the wedding, and then Miss X has to stop off at the Passport Office en route from church to airport to replace her Miss X passport with a new "Mrs Foxile" passport (which she needs a marriage cert to obtain).
No. They book in their married names and the lady obtains a passport in her new name which will arrive in advance and have a date valid from the day of the marriage.
As far as upgrades go, the reason why passengers insist on asking for them is because we all know they have been granted before. Rarely these days perhaps, but still a fact. If the airlines never did free upgrades then no one would ask for one. I know that my supermarket has never upgraded a bottle of wine to a more expensive one at the till, so I don't ask.