<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Traveller:
In the summer of 2000 I flew to London after I was just divorced. My passport and ticket had to be in my new name (I went back to my maiden name) but my DL Skymiles account still had my married name. I wasn't even able to put my DL number on the ticket, when I got back I had to write a letter to DL and send in all my flight info to get credit for the flights.
On domestic flights I was able to use my Skymiles # with my old name, but not the international ones and this was way back in 2000.</font>
I find it really offensive that airlines feel it so necessary to delve into and sometimes rip open the whole issue of marraige and names when someone is divorced or involved in other name-related annomolies.
My wife, with her chosen hyphenated last name, or my Asian friend hong Sik Kim who goes by an Americanized "harold" have both had numerous problems trying to prove they are who they say they are, but even beyond any concerns over security, the airlines still like to be as firm and pig headed as that O'Riley guy on Fox news! NO, we are not going to budge and understand you are different from the norm. We are not going to help you. Sorry. next!
I would pursue that divorce/name issue of yours to this day with DL relentlessley until they cave.
And they eventually will.
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