mary_228

We are traveling on Mileage Plus award tickets from SRQ-EWR-OSL and the flight from EWR is on SK.

What is the check-in procedure for this airline? I am concerned because my husband's flight was booked without using his middle name, but the middle name is on his passport. I imagine the United agent at SRQ will print both boarding passes for us, but I am not sure about what will happen prior to boarding the intrnational segment.

I have uploaded his drivers license to United to have his profile changed on his MP account, but wondered if this even could be an issue.

tr3k

Does not check, not an issue. And neither does any airline I've flown, including Chinese carriers that are supposed to by law.

GUWonder

Don't worry, enjoy the trip.

Leaving out middle names on ticketed bookings for SK flights between the US and Europe has never given me any problems. I default to leaving out the middle names as much as possible. Between the ticketed booking's PNR/record locator and the accurate last name, it shouldn't be a problem with SAS to leave out the middle name from the passport when it comes to the SK flights between the US and Europe.

Tennen

I'll add my 2c. On all of my previous SAS bookings (both TATL and intra-Europe), not once have I used my middle name/initial to book the tickets. But, after ticketing, I go to the SAS website to add my middle name to the APIS(?) info, along with my passport number, KTN, etc.

Daner

Middle names that are present on a passport but missing from a booking don't seem to be troublesome. Multiple first names (one which is never used, and the other is hyphenated), and double last names (with everything being so long that it barely fits on a passport) can be a challenging for some systems. Ask me how I know... ;-)

GUWonder

In US passports, the middle names are part of the given/first name field. Leaving out the US passports' secondary+ "first"/given names -- many of which are considered to be middle names, but some of which may be considered by the individuals to be part of the first name -- from the ticketed bookings for SK TATL flights isn't a problem. The simple way is to have the first given/first name as listed in the US passports' given name field match the first name in the ticketed booking -- all while just leaving out the rest of the names (in the passport's first/given name field) from the booking at the time. The secondary "first"/middle names from the given/first name field on the US passports don't really matter when flying SAS between North America and Europe and back. APIS data need not be a perfect match to the original ticketed names on the booking ; more important is that the APIS data at check-in time should match what is on the passport at the time of travel.

About how to deal with hyphens, other punctuation marks in names, and other such stuff on passports, I tend to take my guidance from the MRZ in passports for the first name in the first/given name field on the passports and then run the rest for the last/surname field to the limit allowed. Some Scandinavian passports have a sort of bad habit of having the middle name at times included as the last name on the passport; but US passports generally don't have that kind of Scandinavian issue. There are some rather particular ways of doing name things in Scandinavia that don't apply to US passport use.

I'm used to also seeing some South Indian names in conjunction with some particular Latino naming traditions. If there is a name thing to be seen, I've probably seen something like it already.

mary_228

Great suggestion. I was able to add the middle name here. And in doing so, I discovered my first name was listed for both passengers!

Thanks all for the helpful information.

nacho

Did you fly with Egypt Air? I was denied boarding because of the issue.

nacho

Yeah that's what I do too - use my first and last name for flight reservations but at the APIS place I put in my full name.