Originally Posted by ucsdjosh

Upcoming flight with 4 adults and an infant lap child. I booked the tickets on the phone in order to properly book the lap child. They forgot to put the infant's middle name on the ticket (middle name is on the passport). I have called Swiss a few times over the last couple of months and they keep saying they have fixed it and it will update shortly. Today I called again and they said no need to have a middle name since it's optional and they can't add it because there are not enough spaces anyways (makes no sense since one of the other travelers has a longer first and middle name and they were able to populate their whole name into the ticket). They said as long as the first and last name match its not a problem.

I'm sure Swiss doesn't care, but Swiss doesn't run the security screenings and we are going to TLV which obviously has heightened security. Am I making too big a deal out of this? After all, the baby will be 1 year old and I can't imagine security thinking that the 1 year old is really trying to travel on someone else's ticket who coincidentally has the same first and last name.