Originally Posted by
sanfran767
Can someone please advise on passport checks in HKG? My agent booked my ticket without my middle name, and while CX offers name updates for free, they say my agent has the itinerary "locked" and they can't update it. My agent wants to charge me close to USD$50 to reissue the ticket with my middle name (what I think should be a free service). I'm nervous about the 1 hour connection I have in HKG being affected by their oversight.
How much would I be risking things by not paying to have the name changed ahead of time? I'm not familiar with how itineraries are "locked" but does anyone know if my ticket can be changed by the airline at checkin to include my middle name?
Despite some people on this forum saying that the name needs to match exactly, I still think it doesn't matter that a middle name is omitted, at least if you only have western names on your passport.
I don't have any problems with leaving out my middle name on any airline tickets including CX. But my Chinese names are not on my passports, only in characters on my HKID, without the "English" transliteration.