Only part of Hyphenated first name on tickets
#1
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Only part of Hyphenated first name on tickets
Hi,
I'm such a dork and freaking out a little. I've booked a bunch of plane tickets to and around europe and realized that I've only put the first part of my hyphenated first name on the tickets.
I didn't even think about it. My name on my government id is Elizabeth-Mary Surname. But I just used Elizabeth Surname
Will this be a problem? It's pretty expensive to change the name on all the tickets.
I'll be flying air transat from Vancouver,Canada to London.
Ryanair to Barcelona
Vueling to Munich and
Easyjet to London.
Has anyone had any experience with this?
I appreciate any feedback.
Liz
I'm such a dork and freaking out a little. I've booked a bunch of plane tickets to and around europe and realized that I've only put the first part of my hyphenated first name on the tickets.
I didn't even think about it. My name on my government id is Elizabeth-Mary Surname. But I just used Elizabeth Surname
Will this be a problem? It's pretty expensive to change the name on all the tickets.
I'll be flying air transat from Vancouver,Canada to London.
Ryanair to Barcelona
Vueling to Munich and
Easyjet to London.
Has anyone had any experience with this?
I appreciate any feedback.
Liz
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Hi,
I'm such a dork and freaking out a little. I've booked a bunch of plane tickets to and around europe and realized that I've only put the first part of my hyphenated first name on the tickets.
I didn't even think about it. My name on my government id is Elizabeth-Mary Surname. But I just used Elizabeth Surname
Will this be a problem? It's pretty expensive to change the name on all the tickets.
I'll be flying air transat from Vancouver,Canada to London.
Ryanair to Barcelona
Vueling to Munich and
Easyjet to London.
Has anyone had any experience with this?
I appreciate any feedback.
Liz
I'm such a dork and freaking out a little. I've booked a bunch of plane tickets to and around europe and realized that I've only put the first part of my hyphenated first name on the tickets.
I didn't even think about it. My name on my government id is Elizabeth-Mary Surname. But I just used Elizabeth Surname
Will this be a problem? It's pretty expensive to change the name on all the tickets.
I'll be flying air transat from Vancouver,Canada to London.
Ryanair to Barcelona
Vueling to Munich and
Easyjet to London.
Has anyone had any experience with this?
I appreciate any feedback.
Liz
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For all intents and purposes, Mary is your middle name or one of your middle names. It's absence from your boarding passes matters not.
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To the OP: I've discovered over the years that airline systems don't recognize special characters (like hyphens). My Concur profile has my hyphen in it, but when my itineraries get sent to the airlines, the hyphen gets dropped and my first names get smashed together. But on the rare occasion that only the pre-hyphen portion of the name has appeared on my BP, it's never been an issue.
(It's also worth noting that my driver's license also drops the hyphen and only has 2/3 of the post-hyphen name, so that doesn't match ANYTHING. But TSA's never even given me a second look.)