If you’re a Canadian citizen with a passport and an itch to explore the world, you may be eligible for a free trip around the world. Just one condition: your legal name has to be Elizabeth Gallagher.

Jordan Axani, a 28-year-old real estate development manager with some spare plane tickets, is willing to fund your airfare for a two-week trip around the world, provided that you’re willing to leave a few days before Christmas.

The Cabbagetown resident posted a notice on Reddit looking for a travel companion late Sunday night. He writes that the offer resulted from a break-up with his girlfriend with whom he had been planning to take the trip since March.

His search for another woman who has the same name as his ex began when he discovered what a hassle it can be to make changes to plane tickets.

“Anyone familiar with the archaic system that is modern air travel will know that a name change on a ticket is damn near impossible,” he writes on Reddit. “Moreover, the flights were purchased during a massive blow-up on Priceline and were frankly so cheap and on so many different airlines that they’re not worth the headache or money to cancel.”

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When he made calls to Air France, Alitalia and Jet Airways, on which the five flights are booked, he was told the only way for him to change the name on the tickets he had purchased was with a marriage, birth or death certificate.

Priceline, the online discounter that Axani used to book his tickets, said it is the responsibility of the ticket buyer to contact individual airlines to see if the name can be changed.

Air France, Alitalia and Jet Airways did not respond to a request for comment, though they all advertise tickets as “non-transferable.”

(Mobile/tablet users, tap here to see where the trip will take an Elizabeth Gallagher.)

Still, Axani is confident someone else with the name Elizabeth Gallagher can join him on the trip if the birthdate associated with the tickets is changed.

“Birthdate changes are much easier to make than name changes,” he told the Star. “It’s never really an issue and we didn’t have to provide a passport number at booking.”

Since the notice went up, he said he’s found one Elizabeth Gallagher, but she’s married and has plans to spend the holidays with her husband and family. Others have jokingly made offers to change their name, he says.

A search of property records reveals only two people by that name in Toronto, but six other Torontonians use Elizabeth as a middle name and Gallagher as a last name. There are also a variety of “E Gallaghers” in GTA phone listings.

One Elizabeth Gallagher reached by phone on Monday said she thought the idea was “strange” and rejected the idea.

“I just don’t feel like going on a trip around the world,” she said.

Axani, who promises he’s “totally normal” and “a great guy to share a laugh with over a beer,” says he is not looking to be reimbursed for the trip. He promises that any Elizabeth Gallagher who takes him up on the offer is free to take the tickets and travel solo.

“I am not looking for companionship, romance, drugs, a trade, or to take selfies with you in front the Christmas Market in Prague,” he writes. “If you feel compelled to toss me a couple hundred bucks, great. Really the only thing I ask for is that you enjoy this trip and that it bring you happiness.”

If the person did decide to travel with him, he says he would want to meet them first to ensure they get along and won’t be destined to become “another travel horror story.”

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His original plans to travel with his girlfriend were inspired by their love of seeing the world while they’re young. The pair, he said, previously travelled to Honduras and Portugal together before their relationship came to an end.

“A lot of young professionals get to a point before family life where they have the chance to see the world and that was my primary goal,” he says. “Every dollar I have goes to travel.”

The trip, he writes on Reddit, consists of flights from New York to Milan on Dec. 21, Prague to Paris on Dec. 28, Paris to Bangkok on Dec. 29, Bangkok to New Delhi on Jan. 7 and New Delhi to Toronto on Jan. 8.

Axani says the value of the flights package is around $6,000, though he bought them during a sale and paid a few thousand less.

Lastly, he suggests that the Elizabeth Gallagher he finds should “pay it forward.”

“I’ve been lucky in life and this is me giving back to the universe,” he writes. “Do something similar someday.”