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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 7:25 am
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jgcii
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Baton Rouge
Programs: Delta,United 1K, SPG Plat, Marriott Gold, Hertz #1 Gold, Avis Preferred
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Originally Posted by mht_flyer
So that is interesting, I do have a suffix "Jr." on my account, however, it only comes into play when I book a ticket directly on co's website.

On CO, I've noticed when I book on co's website, it sticks in Jr in my reservations (and also adds the prefix "MR" into my first name), but when I book with my corp travel agent, they only have FirstName, LastName with no option for Suffix, so I just put in my first and last name.

When I'm travelling CO, it accepts my status with First/Last just fine. It must be the way that CO stores the information and knows "Jr" is a suffix while the resv systems @ NWA and DL don't understand that a suffix is a suffix and not part of my last name?

I had a issue w/ DL last week (I'm travelling back from SEA on DL) and they said they couldn't match my account at all -- and that's when I told them it must be a issue with Jr. Apparently they have no way of overriding this.


SO.. I guess my only thing I can do is get CO to drop "Jr" from my account? (CO actually offered to do this, but I let them leave it in -- maybe I should tell them to get rid of it...)

For this trip, I doubt I can get that changed. That said, with my number in the record on NWA, even though it doesn't give me the "Status", since the number is there, will I get the miles, or have to fax them into CO? (My CO number is printed on the boarding pass for NWA).

Thanks for your help...
I have an II suffix and I use it in conjunction with my last name when there is no suffix field available. You may find that works....

Good Luck!
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