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Old Sep 24, 2015 | 7:17 am
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HansGruber
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Originally Posted by toomanybooks
Yeah, hyphenated ladies have a similar problem. Ask my wife.

And God forbid you are one of those African guys with a "!" in your name.
I chuckled at first because I played college soccer with a guy who had an exclamation point before his last name. After his Freshman year they added it to his jersey too.

TSA had spoken about this multiple times and the Secure Flight program is supposed to have some flexibility to support this. I believe Secure Flight supports hyphens and apostrophes even if the airline doesn't.

So here is the rub...with Southwest it has to match exactly...it sounds like most here already know this. So if their system doesn't support an apostrophe but TSA's does ohiotraveler's name probably will never match.

There are tons of folks in America with apostrophes in their name, I'm curious if anyone else has this issue.
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