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Old Sep 3, 2017 | 2:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Mulford
Hopefully I am posting this in the right place.
Yes you are and let me greet you. So welcome Andrew Muflord to Flyertalk and welcome to the BA forum. I hope we will see plenty more of you here, we like seeing new faces around this board.

You will be totally fine with that spelling, definitely no need to worry, it is clear that this booking is for you alone.

Secondly even if your name was even more incorrect, by a combination of Online Check-in, bags of self confidence (though ideally no checked bags!) and a winning smile, you are highly unlikely to have a problem. Your API data needs to be correct however, at least in terms of surname / family name, date of birth and passport number. Though you don't need to in this case, due to the one letter error, I'd frankly be tempted to stick to the bags-of-self-confidence route.

It's actually an urban myth that the ticket needs to be in the precise form as the passport: for the majority of the planet - who don't use the Latin alphabet - it's pretty much impossible, since there is no internationally agreed form of transliteration into Latin script. So much so that English, French and Spanish versions of transliterations manage to differ into the same alphabet, due to those languages' phonetic variations.

Moreover, a swift glance of a BA iPad will show any number of bookings for Andy, Bertie, Chris, Dave, Eddie, FiFi (OK I made that one up, I haven't seen that) and I don't think all their passports match that.

Anyway, since I have my why-oh-why head on, if you are going to use a travel agent (presumably to save money) then you really have to be 1000% sure your dates, names, routings and everything else are correct. If you book via BA.com then at least you have 24 hours to correct mistakes or get a full refund.

Happy travels Andi!
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