Is there an option to buy airline tickets that allow you to transfer a ticket to another person if necessary?

Posted in Vacation by admin on March 12, 2010.

In a few months, I’m going to be planning a group trip for some students at my school to attend a national conference in NYC. We will need to fly there. If someone can’t go (and doesn’t know this until after the ticket is bought), but we have an alternate, is there a way to make it so that the alternate can use the original person’s ticket?
This group would be anywhere from 6-8 people. I know group options for flights tend to start at 10 people