Ticketing question about missing middle name.
Aug 25, 2008 | 3:51 pm
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 37
Ticketing question about missing middle name.
My passport has my middle name on it. When I obtained an award ticket from AA for travel from SFO-LAX-SYD, and purchased tickets for travel within Australia, my middle name was omitted from the tickets. When I made arrangements for hotels, middle name was also omitted. Agents at AA and Qantas, and travel agents all indicate that this is not a problem. Am concerned about last minute problems due to this. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Aug 25, 2008 | 8:25 pm
#4
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Silicon Valley
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My passport not only has my middle name but also "Jr." whereas all my bookings (airline, hotel, credit cards etc.) only have my first and last name without the "Jr." In all the years that I've traveled here in the U.S. or overseas, I've never had a single problem. So, foxf1, you're gonna be OK.
Aug 25, 2008 | 8:29 pm
#5
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: CLT
Posts: 7,249
I never book tickets with my middle name. United put my middle initial after my first name and stuck my salutation on it so the ticket read
Lastname/MissGJ83MI
Australia didn't care about that, they were more concerned with having the street address of where i was going to be staying.
When I go to Canada I book through my travel agent instead of United's call center so my tickets read Lastname/GJ83. Canada is more concerned with me traveling on business than whether I have a middle name or initial on my passport. I believe everyone in the US with a middle name gets it on the passport and now on drivers licenses too.
Lastname/MissGJ83MI
Australia didn't care about that, they were more concerned with having the street address of where i was going to be staying.
When I go to Canada I book through my travel agent instead of United's call center so my tickets read Lastname/GJ83. Canada is more concerned with me traveling on business than whether I have a middle name or initial on my passport. I believe everyone in the US with a middle name gets it on the passport and now on drivers licenses too.
Aug 28, 2008 | 12:15 am
#8
Join Date: Feb 2008
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As far as I know, I've never had my middle name on a plane ticket. I don't like it, don't use it, and don't have it recorded anywhere except my birth certificate and passport. It's never been a problem, US or Australia.
Aug 28, 2008 | 9:19 am
#9
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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I have no real objection to my middle name but I don't really identify with it, either. My first + last is unique as far as I can tell, what do I need with another name? It has shown up on tickets sometimes when they were booked by a travel agent working off my passport, otherwise I don't think it's ever appeared on them.
Aug 28, 2008 | 10:30 am
#10
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Never travelled on a ticket which has my middle name on it and never had a problem anywhere.
I've even travelled where my first name is represented by an initial only, and also never had a problem.
I've even travelled where my first name is represented by an initial only, and also never had a problem.
Aug 28, 2008 | 10:48 am
#11
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: KY, USA
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If you need a visa to the destination country, then it should have listed your full name. The airline ticket only needs to list first and last name. Middle name is optional.