Originally Posted by
Kev-
Regarding ticketing, in my limited experience, there's no likely problem for missing the middle name. As mentioned, it's only likely to be a problem if there is contradicting information between the ticket and ID.
This is a good time to remind people that the name on the
ticket, which you probably never see since it's usually electronic, need not agree with the name on the reservation. Earlier this month, I was trying to get a typo corrected on an international itinerary involving a three-carrier interline e-ticket. That means there are
seven distinct places where the name is stored and each can be different (the PNR name fiels for each of the airlines, the SecureFlight (SSR DOCS) for each airline, and the eticket). At one point, one of the airline agents produced a second typo while trying to fix the first, so there were
three different values between those fields. We eventually were able to fix five of them, but two (one carrier's PNR name field and the eticket) couldn't be corrected. It did mean the passenger couldn't check in online, but caused no other problem.