Originally Posted by
HarryKUK
Hello,
I have a group booking with BA and need to enter names and APIS info soon. One of the pax has a Malaysian passport.
The name field reads "NAME1 NAME2 NAME3 NAME4" with no separation of given names and surnames. How do I enter this as the name on the booking?
Can I take NAME1 to be the given name and NAME2 NAME3 NAME4 to be the surname? Or vice versa, NAME1 NAME2 NAME3 to be the given names and NAME4 to be the surname?
The pax is telling me his surname is NAME1 and that NAME2 NAME3 NAME4 are his given names but I don't know if BA will agree with that. Wiki says that is correct according to the Malaysian naming convention..
Any advice??
Ta,
H
It doesn't matter in what order you put it.. as long as its all in there. How it matters is how his name is spelt on the booking.
It matters if the name is Malay, Chinese or Indian.
For Malaysian passport holders, there is no 'surname' as in other nationalities.
Say name is John William Smith
In a normal passport, it would show as Smith
John William
But in a Malaysian passport, it will show as John William Smith. It does not have a separate surname and name.
Now it gets tricky for Chinese names..
Because Chinese names usually have first names first, then last name and then their other names... and in the Malaysian passport its all grouped together. So if its something like John Lee Hong Kee
The passport will show as John Lee Hong Kee. His surname will show up as 'John'.
Anyway, I can go on and on.. but as I personally know how to put the names in order (as a Malaysian myself) perhaps you would like to send me a PM with the name and I can tell you in what order it should go as.