Can you transfer your plane ticket to someone else in Peru? When it's free and how it differs from postponing

What Ley 32325 allows

Ley 32325 was published in El Peruano on 9 May 2025. Congress passed it «por insistencia», overriding the Executive’s objection. It has no waiting period before taking effect: it has been in force since 10 May 2025, the day after publication.

The law adds two paragraphs to article 101 of Ley 27261, Peru’s Civil Aviation Law:

• 101.4. «El billete de pasaje puede ser endosado o transferido por su titular a otra persona hasta veinticuatro horas antes de la hora cierta de la realización del vuelo respectivo, sin costo alguno, siempre que las condiciones del contrato de transporte aéreo se mantengan iguales, siendo obligación del transportador proporcionar los canales digitales de atención y otros.» (The ticket may be endorsed or transferred by its holder to another person up to twenty-four hours before the set time of the flight, at no cost, provided the conditions of the air transport contract stay the same; the carrier must provide digital service channels and others.)
• 101.5. «El endoso genera la emisión de un nuevo billete a nombre del endosatario y su emisión es gratuita.» (Endorsement results in a new ticket being issued in the name of the new passenger, and issuing it is free.)

In plain terms: if you bought the ticket and can’t fly, you can pass it to someone else. You, as the holder, make the request. It has to be up to 24 hours before the flight time. They can’t charge you, either for the endorsement or for the new ticket. And the airline has to give you digital channels to do it.

The condition is that nothing else in the contract changes: the conditions of the air transport contract must stay the same.

Endorsing is not postponing

They are two different things, under different rules.

Article 66.7 of the Consumer Code says that, in domestic transport of any kind, consumers can endorse or transfer the service to another consumer «plenamente identificado» (fully identified) or postpone it «en las mismas condiciones pactadas». So for domestic flights it also mentions endorsement. Ley 32325, published in 2025, says for air tickets that endorsement is «sin costo alguno» and that the new ticket is issued free.

Ley 32325 talks about endorsement or transfer. It doesn’t govern postponement.

What if the flight is international?

The text of Ley 32325 doesn’t limit endorsement to domestic flights: it speaks of the «billete de pasaje» (the ticket) without distinguishing. But we did not verify how Ley 27261 applies to airlines operating international flights. So we can’t tell you an airline is bound to transfer an international ticket for free.

What is clear: article 66.7 of the Consumer Code, the postponement rule, covers domestic transport only. This page doesn’t cover what governs postponing an international flight.

If the airline refuses

Ley 32325 also added two paragraphs to article 125 of Ley 27261.

Under 125.5, if the airline «se niegue u omita endosar el contrato de transporte aéreo cuando así lo solicite el titular» (refuses or fails to endorse the air transport contract when the holder asks), within the time and conditions of paragraphs 101.4 and 101.5, «salvo caso fortuito o fuerza mayor, la autoridad aeronáutica civil procederá a aplicar la sanción correspondiente, de acuerdo con la infracción señalada en el reglamento, o la penalidad establecida en la tabla de multas aprobada conforme a las facultades indicadas en el artículo 158» (except in an act of God or force majeure, the civil aviation authority will apply the corresponding sanction, according to the infraction set out in the regulation, or the penalty in the fines table approved under the powers in article 158).

Paragraph 125.6 adds: «En todos los casos, el pasajero tendrá derecho a accionar por los daños y perjuicios.» (In all cases, the passenger has the right to sue for damages.)

Two things worth noting. The exception is an act of God or force majeure. And the sanction depends on what the regulation or the fines table says, which is the next point.

The missing regulation

Ley 32325 ordered the Executive to adapt the Regulation of Ley 27261 (D.S. 050-2001-MTC) «en un plazo de treinta días hábiles contados a partir de su entrada en vigor» (within thirty business days of its entry into force). That deadline expired in 2025.

As of 11 October 2026, we found no decree on the MTC’s official list of supreme decrees adapting the regulation to Ley 32325. The only 2025-2026 decree amending that regulation is D.S. 007-2026-MTC, published 5 March 2026. It deals with how the ticket price is shown (net value, taxes, fees and charges, and the payment methods for items not included). It has nothing to do with endorsement.

What this means for you:

• Your right to transfer is in the law. Article 101.4 doesn’t depend on the regulation.
• The sanction is what’s in doubt. Without the adapted regulation, it isn’t clear which infraction and fine the civil aviation authority would use to sanction a refusal.

How to ask for the transfer

1. Check your flight time and count back: the request must be made up to 24 hours before.
2. Have the full name and ID document of the person who will fly, exactly as they appear on the document they will travel with.
3. Ask in writing, through the airline’s digital channels. Ask only for the change of passenger. If you also want to change something about the flight, ask first: free endorsement requires the contract conditions to stay the same.
4. Keep proof: a screenshot of the request with date and time, the case number, the reply and the new ticket.

A text in Spanish you can use, with an English version below it:

Soy titular del billete [código de reserva / número de billete], vuelo [número] del [fecha] a las [hora], [origen]-[destino].

Solicito endosar este billete a [nombre completo], [tipo y número de documento], sin cambiar ninguna otra condición del contrato, conforme a los párrafos 101.4 y 101.5 de la Ley 27261, incorporados por la Ley 32325. Pido la emisión gratuita del nuevo billete a su nombre.

Hago esta solicitud con más de 24 horas de anticipación a la hora del vuelo.

(I am the holder of ticket [booking code / ticket number], flight [number] on [date] at [time], [origin]-[destination]. I request that this ticket be endorsed to [full name], [ID type and number], without changing any other condition of the contract, under paragraphs 101.4 and 101.5 of Ley 27261, added by Ley 32325. I ask for the new ticket in their name to be issued free of charge. I am making this request more than 24 hours before the flight time.)

Where to complain

If the airline refuses, doesn’t answer or charges you:

1. The airline’s libro de reclamaciones. Attach your request and their reply. If you’re at the airport, see also where to complain at a Peruvian airport.
2. Indecopi. It’s the consumer authority and handles air passenger complaints: Reclama Virtual to conciliate, or a denuncia if you want a sanction. The step by step is in how to file a complaint with Indecopi.
3. The civil aviation authority (the MTC). Ley 32325 gives it the power to sanction a refusal to endorse. We found no MTC complaint channel specific to this.

If the refusal caused you a loss, Ley 32325 gives you the right to claim damages.