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Old Jun 1, 2017, 2:14 am
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paul4040
 
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I have never had that exact issue before but I have had, on various airlines, various BPs with my name in different formats. My name in my passport is correctly in the format: FIRSTNAME DOUBLE-BARREL (including hyphen), and I've had BPs which say:

FIRSTNAME DOUBLEBARREL (most common)
FIRSTNAME DOUBLE BARREL
BARREL DOUBLE FIRSTNAME
FIRSTNAME BARREL

and in fact all sorts of weird combinations. It seems Finnair were being rather officious.

I've never had a BP or ticket which includes the hyphen in my name.

I note you're a Dubliner. You don't by any chance have an Irish name with a non-standard Roman letter, like Máirtín? I wonder if the presence of such a character might throw the system.
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