Originally Posted by
eethan
I'm booking a United award using Turkish miles. TK doesn't allow entering a hyphen in the passenger's first name. (I called TK and their booking agent won't add the hyphen to the name.)
Is it ok if we just skip the hyphen?
I understand that both UA and the TSA need to ok with the missing hyphen.
Most (all?) airline reservation systems don't support special characters in the name fields on the ticket. You'll have no issue not having the hyphen. It's typical to see tickets with names smushed together due to this quirk, and airport agents/TSA/border officials are all used to this format.