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Can I help you
I would never use someone’s first name unless they offered, if I cannot pronounce their name I usually say sorry I do not want to mispronounce your name how do you say it, if they say call me John I inwardly sigh a relief.
This.
Having hyphenated double barrel name [and usually stuck together as one long word on the plane tickets and manifests] with both coming from two different [non-English speaking] countries often poses a challenge
And rather having cabin crew struggle with/butcher it, I am happy with my first name being used.
Re: being called 'Sir', I had a rather weird experience on one QR flight last year, where the said word was replaced by word 'gentleman'
