Originally Posted by
JonathanReez
APIS data gets corrected and resent whenever the boarding agent scans your passport at the gate, so it would always be correct.
Passport is just quickly glanced at, not scanned, at the gate. That is just matching ID/photo to the passenger boarding, but it's not used for data update purposes during boarding.
Now, some airlines, like DL, do often require a passport scan (at check-in counter, lounge, or gate) if one did OLCI, but many other airlines don't. What you enter is what gets sent, though yes, with DL if you go to check-in desk, lounge, or gate after OLCI and have them scan your passport that likely does update it.