Does middle name on plane ticket gave to match passport?

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So the deal is that they print X characters on tickets for first and last name. As someone with bizarrely long names my middle name often ends up cut in half. You should be fine - the real data associated with your ticket is saved on a server somewhere and there are cultures with multiple middle names that inevitably have far more strange circumstances than you (like names being out of order).

  I wouldn’t stress about it.

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  • WeebLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was thinking about that too, thank you for clarifying and giving me peace of mind

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As others have said you should be fine. A different middle name would be a challenge. But a truncated name should be business as usual.

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• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of my relatives has a last name that has characters not in ASCII, she could fly to the US and back without issue despite her last name not matching on the passport, ticket and visa.

  These desks are manned by humans, so you will most likely be fine, but you might catch an idiot as well.

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For what it’s worth I’ve never run into an airline that prints middle names correctly on the ticket, I’m pretty sure anyone that’s been working security more than an hour is used to it.

  My husband’s middle name starts with A, so his name straight up gets changed to the feminine version of his name on tickets sometimes! He’s had a comment about it maybe once ever, and it was just the TSA agent joking about it.

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  • WeebLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh wow. Thanks for the peace of mind. I’m never traveled internationally, and I always assumed there was zero tolerance and everything has to be exact.

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You shouldn’t have any trouble. If they have a protocol to flag that kind of thing, they’ll resolve it by confirming the name on the card that bought the tickets, not turn you away.

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  • WeebLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for the clarification and peace of mind!

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• tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have three middle names, and somehow have ended up with about half of my government docs using all three, and some using only one. I feel stupid about it, but I’ve never had a problem and have flown internationally many times.

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• Snassek@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had an incident where my driver’s license was missing the last letter of my middle name and the plane ticket had my full middle name, the TSA agent questioned it but didn’t hold me up.

  When I renewed my license the next time I made sure they were able to get my full middle name on there. Just didn’t want to get the wrong agent.

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• Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My surname contains spaces. I’ve yet to encounter an airline that is able to handle that properly, so my last name on a ticket never matches my passport name. Either parts are missing, or they just print it as a single word. Never given me issues, so I doubt a truncated middle name is going to pose a problem.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For flights, you’re probably fine. For visas, it might depend on the country

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• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty sure there is a character limit on plane ticket. So I wouldn’t worry too much. People with 5 “first name” can’t just put the 5

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