Originally Posted by
KenJohn
Interestingly enough, if the two of you are ever on the same flight, unless you use a middle name, one of you might get bumped as a duplicate bookings.
That has happened to me - or rather it happened to the person with the same name as me, but I checked in first

Luckily there was plenty of space and he got onboard.... but then we discovered we were both on the same connecting flight in the US and so we made sure we checked in for that together!