Well, this is one way to get around those extra Ryanair fares

We have ALL been there.

Running late for a flight; scrambling to shove the last of your toiletries into your suitcase; searching desperately for your passport.

AND then you're supposed to find the time to check-in a full four hours before departure – lest you feel like forking out €40 for someone at the airport to do it for you (nice work if you can get it, we say). 

Ryanair is notorious for two things: opening up Europe with amazingly good-value air travel, and punishing you harshly (read: 'financially') should you mess up even the tiniest element of your booking, checking-in, printing-off process.

It's just something that we've all had to learn to live with, should you choose to fly Ryanair.

But could all that be about to change?

Because when the stepfather of Adam Armstrong’s girlfriend booked him a flight to Ibiza under the wrong name, the 19-year-old had a brain-wave: it would be cheaper to change his name and get a new passport than it would be to ask Ryanair to make the tweak for him.

Yes, as it would have cost clever Adam an eye-watering €300 – double the price of his flight – to change the name on the ticket, he instead simply changed his name for free by deed poll (from Armstrong to West) and then had a new passport issued for €140.

Speaking to The Sun, Adam explained the mix up: “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.”

A hilariously canny move, we’re sure Adam is only delighted that he outsmarted Ryanair… not to mention that he is now officially Batman too.