Name on booking is incorrect...sort of
Oct 10, 2009 | 11:45 am
#1
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Name on booking is incorrect...sort of
I just noticed that a ticket I booked for an upcoming flight has my first name and middle together as one name. I booked the ticket through ebookers and they said it doesn't matter. Is this true?
Oct 10, 2009 | 1:02 pm
#2
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I think so. I was flying with a friend once and his ticket was issued to "FirstMiddle Lastname" (since there was no Middle Name field and not enough characters in Firstname available). Didn't cause any trouble
Oct 10, 2009 | 2:32 pm
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Definitely true for us last month LAX-HNL and back (on Northwest/Delta) - our names were combined as FIRSTMIDDLE and there was no problem at any point. I mentioned the airports/airlines for comparison but it seems like this should be consistent everywhere.
Oct 10, 2009 | 2:53 pm
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UA does this - they only have a middle initial field, so if you have a middle name, it's actually put in as "FIRST MIDDLE" in the first name field. When the boarding pass prints out, they're concatenated with no space in between. It has never caused me problems.
Oct 10, 2009 | 5:53 pm
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Enjoy your trip and don't worry about it.
Oct 10, 2009 | 10:22 pm
#6
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US merges first + middle into one as well. I called once and was told that there is no space for a separate middle name, so they are merged together. Probably nothing you can/need to do, I'm sure TSA is used to seeing this...