Originally Posted by
Grunion
At this point I'm leaning towards "just winging it" . . .
That's what I would do.
KVS is certainly more of an expert in these matters than I am, as all I have are two experiences. In both cases that I recall, additional seat inventory was no longer available -- I got the only two seats on more than one of the flights -- and the tickets were reissued with the name correction without incident.
I cannot explain how or why, just that it was done. Both times I caught the problem as soon as I received the email confirmation, so called them inside of 24 hours. System-wise, that may have made a difference.